Scott Santens
Writer and full-time advocate of unconditional basic income (UBI); Citizen of Earth and New Orleans; Bachelor of Science in Psychology; Editor of Basic Income Today
I am the Editor-in-Chief of a newly launched UBI news site - Basic Income Today
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Basic Income Today is a new UBI website that's been created to provide updated news and information about Unconditional Basic Income with the goal of furthering the discussion about how UBI impacts purpose, identity, and dignity. Content will be curated from general news and will also include some original content.
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My Unconditional Basic Income Testimony for Maryland's House Ways and Means Committee
As submitted for the public record on March 1, 2019
Click here to optionally listen instead of read this post.
In mid-February I was contacted by the legislative aide for Delegate Gabriel Acevero of Maryland who has introduced a bill to create a social wealth fund intended to eventually pay out a cash dividend to every resident of Maryland. As a prominent advocate for UBI, I . . .
Posted in: activismautomationcash transferschild povertydividendspartial basic incomepovertytechnological unemploymentunderemployment
New on Medium: Doug Ford Cancelled Ontario’s Basic Income Pilot Experiment Because It Was Working
I've just published a new feature-length article over on Medium "Doug Ford Cancelled Ontario’s Basic Income Pilot Experiment Because It Was Working".
Here's an excerpt:
It cannot be ignored that the cancellation of a three-year experiment involving real live human beings is an ethical violation of the . . .
Don't Make People in Need Jump Through Hoops for Food
A letter-to-the-editor in opposition of imposing stricter work requirements for food stamps
The Trump administration has recently proposed adding what I consider to be some pretty counterproductive new requirements for SNAP (aka food stamp) recipients. In response to this, I immediately signed a public statement in defense of SNAP as an advocate of unconditional basic income because we should be going in the direction of . . .
Posted in: activismnew orleanspoverty
The Social Network and Basic Income
An introduction to complex systems theory for basic income advocates
There's something I do every single day, throughout the day, even on weekends, and I've done it since 2013. There's a reason I do it beyond what might be typically presumed, and the basis for that reason is my appreciation for complex systems theory. So I'm going to go over in this post what it is I do, as a way of both . . .
Posted in: activismcivil participationp2predditsciencesocial cohesionsocial mediasystems thinkingthe movement
New Medium Article: Notes of Discussions in the North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress of 2015
Read the article I published on Medium on March 23rd, 2015.
Summary: This is what I've spent the past three weeks writing. It's a full summary of the North American Basic Income Congress I attended in NYC earlier this month. I hope it serves as a faithful record of the event, and allows those interested to learn and share . . .
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What I've observed since 2013 in the discussion about a basic income guarantee
How a BIG could be closer than we think
As I publish this on the eve of the 14th Annual North American Basic Income Congress in New York this weekend, which I will be attending thanks to the amazing support from my patrons, and even heading up social media interaction for (watch /r/BasicIncome for the live feed and #NABIG15 on Twitter), it occurs to me I need to share some of what . . .
