Written By: weka - Date published: 6:05 am, June 12th, 2023 - 160 comments
Categories: election 2023, greens, james shaw, Metiria Turei, unemployment
Tags: GMI, Guaranteed Minimum Income, ubi
…welfare, as well as most UBI policies. Speaking of which, Why…through. It sits between a UBI and neoliberal welfare in that…ahead of The Opportunity Party's UBI policy, because the Greens understand… years by TOP, their UBI fails at the fundamental level…
Written By: KJT - Date published: 6:04 am, March 14th, 2021 - 49 comments
Categories: benefits, Economy, employment, labour, minimum wage, poverty, socialism, welfare
Tags: economy, housing, poverty, ubi
One of the aspirational founding principles of the USA, was the right to "life, liberty and the Pursuit of happiness". It doesn't say, "unless you are black, poor or otherwise undeserving". Similarly, the New Zealand Labour Party has their own Version. "…
Written By: weka - Date published: 11:11 am, March 6th, 2021 - 46 comments
Categories: benefits, Economy, greens, TOPS, welfare
Tags: gareth morgan, no right turn, ubi
…United States, More evidence that UBIs work The report is back… There are different kinds of UBIs depending on who designs them… tory-proofed. Gareth Morgan's original UBI model for instance is liberal… Bennett in charge of a UBI. A UBI with welfare bolted on…
Written By: weka - Date published: 1:27 pm, November 23rd, 2020 - 21 comments
Categories: benefits, labour, welfare
Tags: emergency benefit, GMI, Guaranteed Minimum Income, migrants, ubi, unconditional basic income, universal basic income
…of is Gareth Morgan's original UBI model from the Big …yourself up by your bootstraps UBI, designed by an economist …what a neoliberal UBI would probably look like. UBIs designed by economists…welfare. TOP, who adopted his UBI model, have better intentions, …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:41 am, June 29th, 2020 - 33 comments
Categories: greens, making shit up, Media, national, paul goldsmith, same old national, spin, tax, uncategorized, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags:
… written about the Green Party's UBI equivalent but one point that…
Written By: weka - Date published: 7:05 am, June 29th, 2020 - 263 comments
Categories: ACC, benefits, disability, greens, welfare
Tags: GMI, Guaranteed Minimum Income, Poverty Action Plan, ubi, weag, wealth tax
… a GMI rather than a UBI means we get the necessary…
Written By: weka - Date published: 12:47 pm, April 28th, 2020 - 45 comments
Categories: covid-19
Tags: nine to noon, rogernomics
… but we could have a UBI instead. Not quite sure how… right are interested in a UBI, because one of the big… problems with a UBI is how to tory-proof…
Written By: weka - Date published: 10:34 am, April 12th, 2020 - 77 comments
Categories: climate change, covid-19, Environment
Tags: greenpeace, how change happens, just transition, regen, regenag
… yet convinced fast-tracking a UBI is better than mending welfare…, or that a NZ UBI is in fact shovel ready… concern is that doing a UBI too fast will give us… of how to do a UBI in NZ in a useful…
Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 9:19 am, March 25th, 2020 - 75 comments
Categories: benefits, business, capitalism, class war, Economy, equality, jobs, Keynes, welfare
Tags: grant robertson, ubi
… the idea of a temporary UBI. Finance Minister Grant Robertson has…. No word on what the UBI might be set at, but… that once in place, a UBI could not be reversed. For… good Government. Introducing a permanent UBI is going to be essential…
Written By: Bill - Date published: 9:57 am, March 20th, 2020 - 71 comments
Categories: class war, cost of living, Economy, Politics, poverty, welfare
Tags: Covid19, Gabbard, GOP, ubi
With coronavirus numbers in Italy going through the roof and some US unions expecting up to 90% of their members to lose their jobs, while JP Morgan's forecasting a 14% retraction in the US economy in the next quarter… Unlike the GFC of 2008, NZ will …
Written By: weka - Date published: 7:10 am, February 27th, 2020 - 122 comments
Categories: benefits, disability, economy, wages, welfare
Tags: chloe king, precariat, SLP, Supported Living Payment, ubi, WINZ
…an upswing in New Zealand UBI discussions recently. While many… professional people promoting a UBI in NZ, Keith Rankin… including designing a Youth UBI that actively discriminated against youth…course many benefits to a UBI, including for beneficiaries. The…
Written By: weka - Date published: 10:40 am, December 18th, 2019 - 34 comments
Categories: benefits, child welfare, disability, poverty, welfare
Tags: abelism, ageism, elderly, Shamubeel Equab, ubi
… TOP's showcased policies was a UBI for 18 – 23 year olds…
Written By: Matthew Whitehead - Date published: 8:30 am, May 17th, 2018 - 20 comments
Categories: Economy, employment, spin
Tags: BRR, industrial relations, living wage, strikes, ubi, unionism, wages
Despite Simon Bridges' confidence in discredited economic theories and their protestations to the contrary, the Nats seem intent on doing everything they can to fight ordinary workers getting a pay increase by creating a false narrative that Labour has …
Written By: weka - Date published: 6:08 am, March 2nd, 2018 - 51 comments
Categories: democratic participation, greens, Politics
Tags: green party co-leader, julie anne genter, marama davidson.
… going forward? Yes/No Questions UBI: both said yes. New tax…
Written By: weka - Date published: 6:27 am, February 8th, 2018 - 66 comments
Categories: capitalism, class war, disability, discrimination, health, poverty, wages, welfare, workers' rights
Tags: Chamberlain v Minister of Health, court of appeal, Diane Moody, ministry of health, neoliberalism, Shane Chamberlain
… issue in a potential NZ UBI could be solved by taking…
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 8:00 am, January 29th, 2018 - 172 comments
Categories: class, class war, culture, poverty, Social issues
Tags: children, fixes, poverty
… – Benefit growth – Universal Basic Income (UBI) – Universal Basic Services (UBS) Economic… other arguments for and against… UBI. Ah, UBI. Ever since I first…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 12:30 pm, October 14th, 2017 - 104 comments
Categories: bill english, capital gains, don brash, Economy, gst, john key, labour, tax, winston peters
Tags: gareth morgan, IMF, income inequality, oecd
… of a universal basic income (UBI) as a means of reducing… system. In such countries “a UBI would result in a very…
Written By: weka - Date published: 9:48 am, September 19th, 2017 - 97 comments
Categories: benefits, class war, disability, Economy, election 2017, TOPS, welfare
Tags: #cripthevote, gareth morgan, the big kahuna, ubi, YUBI
…that's an abstract approach to UBIs that places theories about 'how… have differing income needs. UBI was never meant to solve… why exclude more vulnerable people? UBI models seek to improve the…. This gnarly issue of UBI models with sub-liveable rates…
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 10:26 am, September 10th, 2017 - 28 comments
Categories: benefits, class war, national, welfare
Tags: #ChangeTheGovt, beneficiary bashing, brighter future, nine long years
… and simple? Universal Basic Income (UBI). WINZ creating 'two classes' of…
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 8:59 am, March 8th, 2017 - 53 comments
Categories: superannuation, unemployment
Tags: ubi
Bill English's new super plan falls between 2 stools. The super cost crisis that he's trying to summon up, is before 2040 if it exists. The solution was most probably continuing to pay into the Cullen Fund, which English suspended paying into in 2009 to …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:59 am, November 6th, 2016 - 17 comments
Categories: benefits, economy, welfare
Tags: future of work, universal basic income
… is a Universal Basic Income (UBI). This is a guaranteed basic…, while the time for a UBI has not yet come, we… do to assess how a UBI would actually work, how to…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:54 am, October 22nd, 2016 - 44 comments
Categories: capitalism, class war
Tags: Barak Obama, global economy, globalisation, ubi, universal basic income
It has been many decades since I have read anything about Karl Marx but a recent Guardian article made me think about his writing again. The article by John Harris was about the failure of British political leadership and suggested, perhaps unfairly in the…
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 11:25 am, September 16th, 2016 - 120 comments
Categories: capitalism, class war, Economy, Environment, exports, International, manufacturing, monetary policy, overseas investment, Politics, poverty, quality of life, Social issues, welfare
Tags: climate change, climate collapse, future, neoliberalism
… monstrous. Ultimately, move towards a UBI. Deliberately crash the housing market…
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:41 am, July 29th, 2016 - 25 comments
Categories: economy, jobs, labour, leadership
Tags: future of work, ubi
The Herald (Liam Dann) had a Terminator themed piece on the future of work yesterday: Rise of the machines – will robots terminate your job? Robots, virtual reality, artificial intelligence — are they coming to kill our jobs or to create more? … Will a …
Written By: weka - Date published: 11:47 am, June 7th, 2016 - 13 comments
Categories: benefits, democratic participation, referendum, welfare
Tags: switzerland, ubi
… of income. As with other UBI models, the payment is determined…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:44 am, June 7th, 2016 - 35 comments
Categories: capitalism, class war, employment, human rights
Tags: debate, switzerland, ubi
… path towards acceptance of the UBI is not going to be… a universal basic income, or UBI. Supporters said providing such an…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:28 am, June 3rd, 2016 - 51 comments
Categories: benefits, employment, human rights, jobs, leadership, welfare
Tags: future of work, ubi
The Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) is an idea whose time … a practical alternative to a UBI in the medium to long…
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:23 am, May 9th, 2016 - 15 comments
Categories: accountability, capitalism, class war, Ethics, International, overseas investment, poverty, scoundrels, tax
Tags: Mossack Fonseca, panama papers, poverty, tax, tax evasion
… be used to fund a UBI: The Panama Papers prove it…
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:07 am, April 18th, 2016 - 111 comments
Categories: accountability, class war, tax
Tags: gareth morgan, panama papers, tax, tax evasion
… the income would fund a UBI in America. On The Nation…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:00 am, April 15th, 2016 - 120 comments
Categories: uncategorized
Tags: ubi, universal basic income
…a unconditional basic income, or UBI, otherwise known as citizens’ income…now. Meanwhile, there have been UBI-type policies and experiments in…. A pilot of a UBI-ish policy whereby people on… wants to fund research into UBI’s viability. Its president, …
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:47 am, April 14th, 2016 - 43 comments
Categories: capitalism, class war, tax, us politics, wages
Tags: panama papers, tax, tax avoidance, tax evasion, ubi
… be used to fund a UBI: The Panama Papers prove it…
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