Basic Income in the News
- NDP leader Jagmeet Singh calls for $2,000 emergency basic income for all Canadians:
https://twitter.com/theJagmeetSingh/status/1242106736263278593 - Ontario NDP calls for $2,000 emergency income for all Canadians
https://www.ontariondp.ca/news/horwath-calls-2000-emergency-income-help-ontarians-pay-bills-and-get - Daniel Tencer, Huffington Post: Feds Miss Chance To Test Universal Basic Income Amid Crisis:
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/basic-income-canada-coronavirus_ca_5e739cc7c5b6f5b7c53ff553 - Martin Regg Cohn, Toronto Star: the Gig Economy and the Coronavirus:
https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/2020/03/20/gig-economy-workers-already-knew-what-coronavirus-is-teaching-the-rest-of-us-now.html - Macleans: Canada Needs Crisis Basic Income Now:
https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/canada-needs-crisis-basic-income-now/ - Neil Howard & Sarath Davata, Al Jazeera:
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/coronavirus-lockdown-basic-income-200321130521139.html - Karl Widerquist, The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/20/america-coronavirus-recession-universal-basic-income - Stockton mayor calls for emergency Basic Income:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/21/universal-basic-income-michael-tubbs-stockton-coronavirus - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls for UBI:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/take-dramatic-action-aoc-calls-for-universal-basic-income-as-response-to-coronavirus - Andrew Yang doubles down on urgency of Basic Income
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/andrew-yang-discusses-universal-basic-income-and-coronavirus.html - New York Daily News:
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-try-universal-basic-income-in-nyc-now-20200320-mlms463nt5acnguxcbgbdzrr4e-story.html - Financial Times:
https://www.ft.com/content/927d28e0-6847-11ea-a6ac-9122541af204 - Naomi Klein on transformative change amid the coronavirus pandemic:
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/19/naomi_klein_coronavirus_capitalism - Nobel Laureate Economist Joe Stiglitz on combatting the pandemic with progressive capitalism:https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/19/us_economy_coronavirus_stimulus_joseph_stiglitz