Founder & President of @ITSAfoundation. I focus on unconditional/universal basic income (#UBI) and have a crowdfunded basic income (https://t.co/FjhtKCxYE0)scottsantens.com Washington, DCJoined April 2008
Conclusion from 12-year study of ~100 million recipients of monthly cash transfers: "Those receiving [the income] had a 61% lower risk of being a suicide victim than non-beneficiaries. The results were more pronounced among women and young individuals."
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@scottsantens As one who had a prosperous-enough family to pretty much never need a real job with boss and hours, and who was quite entrepreneurially successful, I'm here to say that a solid, stable, safe economic platform and springboard was the key for me.
📣Calling all South African #UBIG activists.
The leading US #UBI advocate @scottsantens will be holding a Twitter Space on Wednesday May 1 at 6pm SA time.
Please join and express your views on the South African struggle for #BasicIncome
Details below.
📣Calling all South African #UBIG activists.
The leading US #UBI advocate @scottsantens will be holding a Twitter Space on Wednesday May 1 at 6pm SA time.
Please join and express your views on the South African struggle for #BasicIncome
Details below.
feel like late stage capitalism has gotten so bad that many young women and girls believe that the solution to their exhaust is being dependent on a man when it really is universal basic income.
feel like late stage capitalism has gotten so bad that many young women and girls believe that the solution to their exhaust is being dependent on a man when it really is universal basic income.
We’re proud to join with five of our coalition Partners in @FirstVoiceNL to put forward policy solutions to end Indigenous poverty in #nlpoli. Implementing a Universal Basic Income (#UBI) for all is an innovative way to address the growing cost of living in the province. (1/2)
A scoping review of the current state of evidence on the relationship between income support policies and the risk of gun violence found four studies. All four found reductions in risk of inter-personal gun violence of policy relevant magnitude.
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Two ways to improve mental health: (a) remove stress, esp. financial worries, bullying; (b) proper access to timely, professional therapy as needed.
For (a), a hassle-free unconditional income (universal basic income) is a game changer.
Only with @TheGreenParty
Two ways to improve mental health: (a) remove stress, esp. financial worries, bullying; (b) proper access to timely, professional therapy as needed.
For (a), a hassle-free unconditional income (universal basic income) is a game changer.
Only with @TheGreenParty
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration will re-launch a popular guaranteed income pilot that has provided $500 monthly payments to low-income residents as it works to spend federal COVID-19 relief funding. trib.al/6GvdkqG
Officials in Chicago say they are doubling down on funding successful programs launched by the prior administration while pulling back on programs that have been difficult to implement, so they are going to do another round of basic income payments.
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This week on Freakonomics Radio Plus: Long before the world knew what “universal basic income” was, Canada experimented with giving poor households extra money. We dig back into the archive to see what happened — and what it means for the U.B.I. movement. apple.co/3w1Nzgl
Basic income support works. It would make a huge dent in LA’s homeless crisis. It’s in everyone’s interest. But first we’d have to reject the profoundly American idea that poor people should be punished for being poor. latimes.com/california/sto…
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If the wealthy were taxed properly.
And that money went into affordable housing + UBI instead of pipelines.
Then there would be less people living in poverty.
This would lessen the pressure on health care.
And lifting people out of poverty is the RIGHT THING TO DO.
For myself
UBI should be unconnected to AI/AGI
It is a market creator
Something built to ensure an essential economy for
Food
Housing
Health
And a common market for home stuff consumables
From cloths to furniture and electronics
Severe rainfall has pummeled my country, causing devastating floods and leaving countless families homeless.
It's been decades since we witnessed such extreme weather.
Now more than ever, UBI is crucial to enabling families to weather the harsh realities of climate change.
Severe rainfall has pummeled my country, causing devastating floods and leaving countless families homeless.
It's been decades since we witnessed such extreme weather.
Now more than ever, UBI is crucial to enabling families to weather the harsh realities of climate change.
"I think there's an opportunity to ship billions of robots in the coming decades onto the planet" - Figure CEO Brett Adcock
What happens to wages when the marginal cost of routine labour approaches 0? In any event, we'll need UBI.
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