The Basic Income Podcast
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The Basic Income Podcast
A podcast exploring the politics, implications and challenges of the basic income--a policy in which every person would receive a monthly check to cover basic expenses.
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Jamie Morgan: Improving racial equity by combining basic income and Baby Bonds
One of the proposals championed during the 2020 Democratic primary was a baby bond, which would create steadily growing accounts for each child that t...
The $1200 Check for Every American and What’s Yet to Come
Recently, the CARES Act, the largest coronavirus relief package to date was signed into law, and it included, among many other things, a $1200 check f...
Basic Income Interest Surges Due To COVID-19 Crisis
While interest in universal basic income has increased steadily over the last five years, it has surged to unprecedented levels over the last five wee...
Leah Hamilton: Why Basic Income Could Address Issues of Welfare Programs
We often mention that our current welfare programs have serious inefficiencies, bottlenecks and unnecessary filters, and on this episode, we delve int...
Alex Howlett: Making Basic Income Dynamic and Responsive
The amount that everyone would receive under a basic income is generally stated as $1000 per month, give or take, with any nod to how this amount woul...
Stacey Rutland: Building a Post-Yang Campaign Basic Income Movement
The Andrew Yang presidential campaign introduced millions of people to the idea of basic income, and galvanized many who are excited by the idea. Inco...
Jeremie Greer: Designing a Liberation Economy
Most of us recognize that the way our economy operates today is leaving a lot of people behind. But what would it actually look like to have an econom...
Bliss Broyard: An Intimate Look at Basic Income Recipients in Stockton
We have heard much about the basic income trial in Stockton, CA, and finally got some aggregate statistics earlier this year. These averages and other...
Morgan Harper: Running for Congress in Ohio on Universal Income
While Andrew Yang has brought basic income to the national stage, we are seeing more and more state and local politicians exploring the idea as well....
Michael Stynes & Steve Nunez: Designing UBI Pilot Programs
While there is much excitement around the various basic income pilots in progress or under consideration in the U.S. and around the world, it is worth...
Sukhi Samra: Early Results From The Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration
The Stockton SEED demonstration has drawn national attention as a modern basic income trial. Recently, we got the first reports from basic recipients...
Workers Strength Fund: Providing financial security to precarious American workers
For most of the late 20th century, having a job provided you with enough financial security to have a decent life in the United States. But today, mil...
Conrad Shaw: The UBI Calculator
If we were to fund a basic income of $1,000 a month with a wealth tax, a carbon tax, some program consolidation and deficit spending, how much would y...
Basic Income Q&A: Paying for it, Inflation, and the Path Forward
Recently we reached out to our audience asking for questions on basic income. This episode takes on three big ones: will rent and other costs increase...
Rep. Tami Gouveia: Massachusetts Considers a Basic Income Pilot
Recently, legislation was introduced in Massachusetts to launch a state-funded basic income trial. The bill would create a pilot project involving 300...
Robert Stayton: Could Solar Dividends Provide a Basic Income?
Robert Stayton proposes an outside-the-box idea for how to provide both ample clean energy and a basic income on the local, state or national level: s...
Reverend Liz Theoharis: Building a Movement Centered on Poor People
The favorite basic income advocate of many supporters is Martin Luther King Jr., who led the Poor People's Campaign. This campaign has been revived in...
Basic Income and the Social Safety Net
In this discussion episode, Jim lays out his ideas on how we should think about basic income in relation to other benefit programs like unemployment i...
Jhumpa Bhattacharya: The Racial Wealth Gap and Basic Income Policy Design
Basic income has been heralded as a policy that can partially address racial inequities in our economy and social benefit system, but how would the go...
Max Ghenis: Evaluating Today’s Basic Income Policies
As basic income gains more recognition and interest, new proposals and ideas for what a basic income should look like are starting to emerge. While th...
Rutger Bregman, Author of Utopia for Realists (rebroadcast)
A conversation with Rutger Bregman, author of Utopia for Realists: The Case for a Universal Basic Income, Open Borders and a 15-Hour Workweek. We disc...
What Basic Income Will And Won’t Solve (Rebroadcast)
Basic income advocates often talk about what a transformative impact universal basic income could have on society — but what issues and challenges wil...
Dr. Evelyn Forget on Mincome and Basic Income in Canada (Rebroadcast)
Canada’s basic income trials in trials in the 70s – the “Mincome” experiments – were largely forgotten until Dr. Evelyn Forget found records of the Mi...
Why is Interest in Basic Income Surging? (Rebroadcast)
Three years ago, few people had even heard of universal basic income. Now interest is growing across the country, and the idea is getting more exposur...
Roy Bahat, Head of Bloomberg Beta, on Innovation and Basic Income (Rebroadcast)
Roy Bahat, Head of Bloomberg Beta, discusses the future of employment and why a universal basic income could spur innovation. He also discusses the me...
A Step Forward for Basic Income in the U.K. feat. Jamie Cooke
Recently John McDonnell, shadow chancellor of the U.K.'s Labour Party announced that he would like to see state-funded basic income trials when the La...
Basic Income and Cash Dividends at the First Democratic Presidential Debate
On June 26th and 27th, the first Democratic Presidential debates were held in Miami, Florida. The debates gave basic income-focused Andrew Yang a nati...
Cash Transfers for Low Income Expecting Mothers, feat. Zea Malawa
Expecting Justice, a program out of UC San Francisco's Pre-Term Birth Initiative, is spearheading a cash transfer program for low income expecting mot...
A Proposed Social Wealth Fund in Maryland, feat. Del. Gabriel Acevero
Maryland Delegate Gabriel Acevero is leading the charge for the creation of a social wealth fund in his state. This fund, which would be seeded with r...
Basic Income Q&A: Taxes, Wages and Systemic Change
We reached out to you for your questions on basic income and you wrote in with many excellent ones. In this Q&A, Owen and Jim discuss whether basic in...
A Unique Basic Income Program in South Korea, feat. Juon Kim
The Gyeonggi province, the most populous province in South Korea, has started a unique basic income project. Under the program, 24 year-olds will rece...
Expanding Social Security & Other Programs into a Basic Income
Recently an article in Fast Company proposed reaching a basic income by expanding social security. Owen and Jim dive into the pros and cons of that ap...
India Moves Toward Basic Income, feat. Sarath Davala
The basic income movement in India is growing rapidly. There are proposals for a national basic income, and the state of Sikkim seems likely to introd...
Technological Economic Cycles, feat. Carlota Perez
While in many ways it feels like we live in unprecedented economic times, through another lens we have been here before. Dr. Carlota Perez charts econ...
Should Government Programs be Universal or Targeted?
One of the most common questions we get about basic income is, "why should it be universal?" Or put another way, "what's the point of giving Bill Gate...
The Basic Income Movement in Sri Lanka, feat. Talal Rafi
With India seriously considering basic income proposals, the movement is gaining traction in South Asia. This includes Sri Lanka, which is having a wi...
The Great Risk Shift, feat. Jacob Hacker
Since LBJ's Great Society programs revamped America's social safety net, the average American has steadily taken on more and more risk, both through i...
Running for President on Basic Income, feat. Andrew Yang
The basic income movement is gaining national exposure through the presidential campaign of Andrew Yang. Yang has now been interviewed by many major T...
Preliminary Results from the Finland Basic Income Trial, feat. Ylikännö Minna
Finland recently concluded a nationally funded basic income experiment, focused on people receiving unemployment benefits. We got the first wave of fi...
The Bills in Congress that Would Create New Cash Policies
Recently, a variety of basic income-esque legislation has been introduced at the federal level. Bills from Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Ro Khanna, Sher...