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The Monthly Child Tax Credit Gave Birth to New Entrepreneurs
It’s no coincidence that during the pandemic, entrepreneurship increased in the United States by 23%, which was more than any other advanced economy. Capital Requirements Bottleneck Small Business Formation They say necessity is the mother of invention, but what they don’t say in the same breath is that
An Introduction to Unconditional Basic Income For All
Let’s talk about humanity... Human civilization was not ready for COVID-19, nor is it ready for the continuing impacts of climate change, nor the impacts we will increasingly feel as we automate more and more employment. As a species, we were not ready. We’re still not ready. And
The Rise of Omicron is Grounds for Extending the Monthly Child Tax Credit
The end of CTC payments will also mean the end of employment for some parents, right when times are most difficult due to an Omicron wave. Omicron is Likely the Fastest-Spreading Virus Known to Humankind Omicron is spreading like wildfire across the country, with a doubling rate of about two
Podcast Episode: Vision and Foundations for a Better Society
From 2019 to 2021, I took part in a convening on automation, opportunity, and belonging to visualize the future and how to get to a better one among the infinitely possible versions of it. Together we crafted over multiple iterations a vision document of the kind of society we could
My New (And First) Book: Let There Be Money
Now available in paperback and Kindle For those who have read my long essay about UBI and MMT [https://vocal.media/theSwamp/why-we-need-modern-monetary-theory-mmt-and-why-it-needs-universal-basic-income-ubi] (or listened to me narrate it [https://anchor.fm/scottsantens/episodes/Why-We-Need-Modern-Monetary-Theory-MMT-and-Why-It-Needs-Universal-Basic-Income-UBI-e175t4m] ) in its entirety, you know it was long. At near 14,000 words, it takes
Understanding Pandemic Inflation: How to Best Reduce and Alleviate It
It would be a mistake to misdiagnose our inflation as mostly a demand problem instead of mostly a supply problem. Inflation has become the scariest monster of 2021. That’s pretty amazing considering how a novel coronavirus has killed upwards of 20 million human beings since a pandemic started, including
How Work Requirements are Actually Anti-Work and Why the Fully-Refundable Child Tax Credit is Pro-Work
The fully-refundable CTC is a better way. It needs to stay. Won’t people stop working if they receive income independent of work? That’s always one of the first questions asked in regards to any government benefit that doesn’t require employment or job-seeking in order to receive it.
Proof of Humanity and the Universal Basic Income Coin
On March 10, 2021, Proof of Humanity’s UBI coin [https://blog.kleros.io/introducing-ubi-universal-basic-income-for-humans/] went live on the Ethereum Mainnet. For anyone who doesn’t know what that sentence means, it means that a cryptocurrency project was launched using the most popular smart contract blockchain in the world, with
The Forward Book and the Forward Party
Forward is now in bookstores and the Forward Party has just launched! I read Andrew Yang’s new book Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy [https://amzn.to/3rBx97E?utm_campaign=Foreword%20to%20Civilization&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter] months ago, and have been
The Republican History of the Child Tax Credit and Why the GOP Should Proudly Embrace It
From Reagan, to Bush, to the Contract with America, to George W. Bush, to Trump, the child tax credit is a Republican creation that the GOP should embrace and make permanent On July 15, the first monthly child tax credit (CTC) payments went out, and they’re already being considered
