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6 years ago, Mexico decided to start giving everyone over age 65 about $300 every two months. They also tripled their minimum wage. The combo dropped their poverty rate by 26%. Poverty is a policy choice. Nations can choose to reduce poverty by investing in their people with universal basic income.
6 years ago, Mexico decided to start giving everyone over age 65 about $300 every two months. They also tripled their minimum wage. The combo dropped their poverty rate by 26%. Poverty is a policy choice. Nations can choose to reduce poverty by investing in their people with universal basic income.
I've just published September's ITSA newsletter that highlights what I consider to be the top 7 pieces of Universal Basic Income world news this month. Subscribe to get these monthly to stay in the loop on UBI and also what we're up to at ITSA Foundation in support of #UBI.
https://itsanewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/itsa-newsletter-september-2025
I've just published September's ITSA newsletter that highlights what I consider to be the top 7 pieces of Universal Basic Income world news this month. Subscribe to get these monthly to stay in the loop on UBI and also what we're up to at ITSA Foundation in support of #UBI.
https://itsanewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/itsa-newsletter-september-2025
"We know how hard times have been for so many families.
How costs have rocketed up.
How people are making sacrifices to make ends meet."
In her #SOTEU speech, President von der Leyen made it clear: we must tackle poverty at its roots.
That's why we'll soon launch a bold European Anti-Poverty Strategy to eradicate poverty by 2050, reinforced by a strong Child Guarantee.
This isn’t just policy.
It’s social justice.
Help shape our first-ever Anti-Poverty Strategy: https://link.europa.eu/7kW3k9
@EUCommission Some form of #UBI would go down nicely about now, paired with progressive enough taxation. Are we bold enough to go there?
New longread essay from me in response to the slew of recent hot takes holding up a few guaranteed income pilot results as some kind of nail in the coffin of universal basic income and even cash transfers in general. This is a long one because I dive into the details and cover much more evidence. #UBI
New longread essay from me in response to the slew of recent hot takes holding up a few guaranteed income pilot results as some kind of nail in the coffin of universal basic income and even cash transfers in general. This is a long one because I dive into the details and cover much more evidence. #UBI
I'm open about who I am & my lived experiences. I don't give a fuck who wants to judge me for being a human who had different experiences than the people who love to judge others for no good reason. I think the people who judge people like me - probably are filled with much worse sinful shit that they want to keep secret forever - in their own heads and/or they've actually committed real violent crimes & are living double/triple lives.
If we had #UBI back then & now - poor people like me would not have needed to juggle 3 jobs while trying to pay for our own higher education goals. If you thought someone like me would never need to do any type of #SexWork - you're wrong. Many of us had to do some of that because we had to pay for our own way to try to obtain higher education. I hid this shit for decades. I'm not hiding anymore.
If you're uncomfortable reading this - you should be. What are you going to do to help others who are in the same desperate place that I was in, decades ago?
The Left offers this, the Right offers Spite and Grift.
It's a shame there are no left media outlets to talk about this instead of White Nationalism
Oh, and the Scottish Greens are on Mastodon, unlike everyone else. They actually live it, rather than talk it.
#ScottishGreens#UKPOL#UKPOLITICS#ScotPol#UBI#PublicTransport
The Left offers this, the Right offers Spite and Grift.
It's a shame there are no left media outlets to talk about this instead of White Nationalism
Oh, and the Scottish Greens are on Mastodon, unlike everyone else. They actually live it, rather than talk it.
#ScottishGreens#UKPOL#UKPOLITICS#ScotPol#UBI#PublicTransport
I recently covered the publication of a meta-analysis looking at 13 unconditional basic income experiments. The researchers concluded that across all 9 categories they looked at, UBI improved the outcomes, and those who benefited the most tended to be children. #UBI
I recently covered the publication of a meta-analysis looking at 13 unconditional basic income experiments. The researchers concluded that across all 9 categories they looked at, UBI improved the outcomes, and those who benefited the most tended to be children. #UBI
Since recording this episode, I actually found an updated version of this study, concluding that actually the return on investment in reducing child poverty with unconditional income is 15:1, not 10:1. So, new research shows it's even dumber not to do a basic income for kids. #UBI
Since recording this episode, I actually found an updated version of this study, concluding that actually the return on investment in reducing child poverty with unconditional income is 15:1, not 10:1. So, new research shows it's even dumber not to do a basic income for kids. #UBI
A point I'd like to see discussed more, especially with people who are fans of capitalism:
Economic inequality makes money less useful.
My thinking: as inequality gets increasingly extreme, customer-facing vendors are increasingly motivated to price their offerings to appeal to the higher end of that range -- sacrificing quantity of sales for overall increase in profit.
The more this happens, the fewer people have enough discretionary spending money left over -- or, indeed, enough to live on.
Survival (and even prosperity) then becomes less about money and more about establishing supportive community (a mix of barter and localized socialism).
Take-away: #UBI is the only way to save #capitalism.
A point I'd like to see discussed more, especially with people who are fans of capitalism:
Economic inequality makes money less useful.
My thinking: as inequality gets increasingly extreme, customer-facing vendors are increasingly motivated to price their offerings to appeal to the higher end of that range -- sacrificing quantity of sales for overall increase in profit.
The more this happens, the fewer people have enough discretionary spending money left over -- or, indeed, enough to live on.
Survival (and even prosperity) then becomes less about money and more about establishing supportive community (a mix of barter and localized socialism).
Take-away: #UBI is the only way to save #capitalism.
"Why Universal Basic Income Is the Answer to Poverty, Insecurity, and Inequality" — @scottsantens
WOW!
Femicidio —the killing of women for being women— is treated here in USA as part & parcel of machismo that only applies to those guys south of the border. but machismo is just Spanish argot for patriarchy.
All across Latinoamérica, localities are passing laws to treat femicide as a hate crime and not a "crime of passion"; Puerto Rico included.
Brasil is going one step further: Lula just signed into law #UBI/ #SocialSecurity for children left orphaned by femicide
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