“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex…It takes a
touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
– E.F. Schumacher
- Co-founder of the Basic Income March
- Organizer of Basic Income NYC, 2015 to 2019
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Andrew Yang at Washington Square Park, NYC May 14th
Today, in 2019, we know the truth: automation is shredding swaths of human jobs, including at our drug stores, our clothing stores, and our banks.
National Priorities?
Is it lost on anyone that in a city where we say we want to end inequality, that all the kids who sell candy on the train are black, while almost none of the 895 kids who got into Stuyvesant High School this year were black? That's really, really bad.
Explaining U.S. Social Safety Net to Scandinavians is Utterly Embarrassing
UBI, and candidates who are committed to making it the law are where we need to be investing our energy, not in charity, tweaking failed Welfare "to Work" policies state to state, not in passing out sandwiches and Thanksgiving turkeys.
16th Annual U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Congress Opening Session
Organized by the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network, Basic Income Canada, and Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, Associate Professor Michael A. Lewis, this year’s Congress will bring together researchers, activists, policymakers and students from around North America [...]
Other People’s Hunger
We shouldn’t use a life threatening crisis like poverty as the basis for a public art project without any responsible discussion or call to action of how to solve it.
Scarcity, Misdeeds, and Violence? Or Universal Basic Income?
Andrew Yang, Presidential candidate writes, "A culture of scarcity is a culture of negativity. They attack each other. Tribalism and divisiveness go way up."
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The Adventures of Carrie Giver
By Theresa Funiciello, Diane Pagen and Eduardo Savid. If there were ever a comic book created for Men and Women alike, it's this revolutionary new comic book. All the adventure and excitement of a superhero [...]