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Top 10 Universal Basic Income Articles of 2023

As the editor of Basic Income Today and a moderator for the Basic Income subreddit, I read a lot of stuff every year about UBI, somewhere around 100…

Jan 22 •

September 2023

It's Time To Crowdfund a UBI Platform

As some of you already know, I'm excited about the potential for Comingle. It's an app that once fully developed and launched will provide a small basic…

Sep 28, 2023 •

July 2023

The Big Red Button Argument for UBI

Our potential extinction and how implementing basic income can help us avoid it

Jul 17, 2023 •

May 2023

Negative Income Tax is Not Cheaper Than Universal Basic Income, Nor is Guaranteed Income More Progressive by Excluding the Rich

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May 25, 2023 •

April 2023

How Money is Created out of Public Spending and Deleted by Taxes

The Origins and Death of Fiat Money

Apr 7, 2023 •

September 2022

What Alaska’s First Use of Ranked-Choice Voting Has to Teach the Rest of Us About How We Vote

A Reminder That Representative Democracy is About Representing the Majority

Sep 9, 2022 •

September 2021

The Republican History of the Child Tax Credit and Why the GOP Should Proudly Embrace It

From Reagan, to Bush, to the Contract with America, to George W. Bush, to Trump, the child tax credit is a Republican creation that the GOP should…

Sep 15, 2021 •

Escaping Together

Thoughts about basic income, surviving disasters, and the future we must escape from

Sep 8, 2021 •

August 2021

My wife is immunocompromised. That's why I feel so strongly about people getting vaccinated.

Your freedom to do what you want ends at the freedoms of others to not be killed.

Aug 10, 2021 •

July 2021

How Republican President Richard Nixon Laid the Foundation for Monthly Cash for Kids

Making Our New Guaranteed Income for Kids Permanent is a Real Path to Universal Basic Income (UBI)

Jul 30, 2021 •

March 2021

What about combining a higher federal minimum wage with monthly recurring direct payments?

We can increase incomes, reduce taxes, accelerate automation, and grow the economy.

Mar 1, 2021 •

February 2021

A Pandemic is a Great Time to Stop Ignoring Unpaid Care Work

Care work is work. We need to recognize it and support it with monthly income.

Feb 6, 2021 •

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