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Alaska vs. the U.S. Before and After Existence of the Yearly Alaskan Dividend
Every year every qualifying resident of Alaska receives an annual dividend provided by the Alaska Permanent Fund [https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/karl-widerquist/alaska-model-citizens-income-in-practice] . The most recent payout was $1,884 in 2014, for every man, woman, and child in Alaska. The first payout of $1,000 occurred in 1982.
It’s Time We Take a Closer Look at America’s Three Favorite Words: Freedom, Liberty, and Democracy
Freedom, liberty, democracy… these words are used so often that we give them little real thought, rarely holding them up to the realities of what we see around us. What do these words really mean? Do they currently exist for us to celebrate as we appear to think they do?
Breaking Down Without a Spare
America’s lopsided welfare system of counterproductive public assistance The Parable Let’s imagine we’re in a car together on a road trip. We’re on our way to visit your family. We’d have actually preferred to fly, but that route wasn’t in the budget, which is
Machine Labor Day
Tomorrow’s holiday made possible by eliminating our fears of technological unemployment The Labor Movement is back. > “Comparing their campaign to the civil rights movement, fast food workers from across the country voted Saturday to escalate their efforts for $15-an-hour pay and union membership by using nonviolent civil disobedience.
Payday Loan Lenders Are Unstoppable… Or Are They?
The Effects of a Basic Income on Loans and Debt As many may have recently learned from John Oliver in his segment on predatory lending, there appears to be no stopping the viral Whac-A-Mole nature of payday loan lenders. For those who missed this infuriatingly informative yet still hilarious segment,
Why Should We Support the Idea of an Unconditional Basic Income?
An answer to a growing question of the 21st century What would you do? So what exactly would you do, if you were guaranteed $1,000 per month for the rest of your life? And yes, that’s around what the amount would most likely be here in the United
