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Basic income (BI) is getting a lot of press these days. From Switzerland’s upcoming referendum to give each citizen 2,50… 
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The startup crowd keeps trying to reinvent the welfare wheel. But a better answer is staring us right in the face.
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Why is the welfare state under attack when happiness economics shows it is the system most conducive to human wellbeing?
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More on this lecture: http://goo.gl/MhFea More about Development Studies at SOAS: http://www.soas.ac.uk/development/ This Inaugural Lecture by Professor Guy ...
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Generous welfare benefit levels make people who are not in employment more likely to want to work rather than less, new research suggests. "Many scholars and commentators fear that generous social benefits threaten the sustainability of the welfare state due to work norm erosion, disincentives to work and dependency cultures," the researchers say. "This article concludes that there are few signs that groups with traditionally weaker bonds to the labor market are less motivated to work if they li
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Toward a Free and Virtuous Society 2014 Part 4/10 Professor Philip Booth PhD Economic and ethical Implications of the Welfare State Professor Philip Booth PhD...
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In the first major work he has authored alone as pontiff, Francis called for an overhaul of the financial system in Western economies, which promotes 'inordinate consumption' and 'unbridled consumerism'.
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Athens Biennale 2015-2017 "OMONOIA" Synapse 1: Introducing a laboratory for production post-2011 Session I: Alternative Economies Commons & Urban welfare: Lu...
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“The urge to decentralize and autonomize has informed social movements since the 1970s. The language of “decentralized autonomous organization” (DAOs) appeared among the swarms of activists in the late-1990s counter-globalization movement. But the trust-replacing mechanisms of a blockchain offer less an ideology than a method, one which may make it far easier for us to …
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Advocates for House Bill 2258 say the bill is about "having a great life."
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Many government programs are needlessly complicated, and the Social Security system is one of the worst. A new book tries to guide the unwary.
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Boycott Workfare is a UK-wide campaign to end forced unpaid work for people who receive welfare. Workfare profits the rich by providing free labour, whilst threatening the poor by taking away welfare rights if people refuse to work without a living wage. We are a grassroots campaign, formed in 2010 by people with experience of workfare and those concerned about its impact. We expose and take action against companies and organisations profiting from workfare; encourage organisations to pledge to boycott it; and actively inform people of their rights.
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In this episode of the JustPublics@365 podcast series, I interview Distinguished Professor Frances Fox Piven (Graduate Center, CUNY). Professor Piven is an expert in the development of the welfare state, political movements, urban politics, voting, and electoral politics, and she has been politically engaged with improving the lives of America’s poor since the 1960s.
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