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‘Seen’, ‘Respected’ and ‘Empowered’: Exploring the Dignity Dividend of a Universal Basic Income
Abstract Individuals experiencing poverty face dual indignity: material deprivation and engagement with stigmatizing social policy. Universal Basic Income (UBI) is often pitched as a dignifying alternative to both challenges. This article presents a 2-year ethnographic investigation within a UBI pilot in South Indian urban slums. I explore the dignifying potential of ‘UBI way’—unconditionality, universality, individualization,…
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Intra-Gender Trade-Offs in Basic Income Regimes
Abstract The contemporary debate about basic income and gender primarily adopts an external perspective according to which women as a group are pitched against men as a group. This article examines tensions internal to women as a group. We distinguish three types of tensions, each of which lead to a so-called intra-gender trade-off: (1) horizontal…
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Doing Radical Things Right: Ethical Good Practice for Basic Income Experiments
AbstractIncreasing calls for reform to welfare provision have seen growing support forbasic income (BI) – the unconditional provision of cash transfers to all. As aresult, recent years have seen an exponential increase in the number of pilotexperiments of BI, across all parts of the world. However, to date, there hasbeen little discussion of the ethical…
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The Falling Cost of Basic Income in the United States, 1967-2024
Abstract This article estimates the cost of Universal Basic Income (UBI) sufficient to eliminate poverty in the United States. It uses the most recent microdata available from the Census Bureau through its Current Population Survey (CPS) public-use microdata files and references historical income data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplements (ASEC) going back to…
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New study proves the feasibility of a European basic income
A pioneering study has been published, providing the first comprehensive analysis of the financial feasibility of a European Basic Income (EBI). The research demonstrates that guaranteeing the right to existence for everyone in the European Union (EU) is not only economically viable but also promotes a more equitable and cohesive Europe. Basic income—an unconditional, periodic…
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