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Basic Income Regenerates Life
Read more: Basic Income Regenerates LifeIn this short video, Dylan shares his story of the impact a basic income had on his life so far. Dylan was part of the pilot program run by Basic Income Works, and they collected first-person stories to educate the public on how beneficial basic income programs are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF2NZKwiUcw
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New York City Big Book Award Winner
Author Robert Stayton has received national recognition for his book Solar Dividends by winning the 2019 New York City Big Book Award in the Social/Political Change category. “We are happy to highlight these books, recognize their excellence, and share their achievements.” said awards sponsor Gabrielle Olczak. The international competition is judged by experts from different…
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Directly linking inequality and climate change
Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century: The main challenges of our times are the rise in inequality and global warming.1 Robert Reich: Climate change and widening inequality are not two separate issues.2 Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything: Fighting inequality on every front and through multiple means must be understood as…
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Ping Xu endorses Solar Dividends
I’m pleased to annouce that Ping Xu, the energetic Founder of UBI Asia Pacific has endorsed my book Solar Dividends. As human civilization progress, obsoleted values and lifestyle ought to be abolished for a better future: The energy of the Sun is the original source of most of the energy found on earth. It is…
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UBI, Our Right to Live
If you are new to Universal Basic Incomes (UBI), watch this video. The documentary “UBI, Our Right to Live” talks about the right of all human beings to subsist simply because they were born. It is an idea with history, but it has spread spectacularly in recent years, especially due to the fact that technology…
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Economist Robert Pollin recommends Solar Dividends
ROBERT POLLIN is Distinguished University Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute. This is what he said after reading Solar Dividends: Achieving viable paths to climate stabilization must be the first economic priority of all humanity until the job is really, truly done. Solar…
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The Basic Income Podcast discusses Solar Dividends
Author Robert Stayton was interviewed on the The Basic Income Podcast on September 16, 2019. Hosts Jim Pugh and Owen Poindexter asked him about his new book Solar Dividends in a podcast titled “Robert Stayton: Could Solar Dividends Provide a Basic Income?” After the interview Jim and Owen discussed the idea of funding basic incomes…