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
My Unconditional Basic Income Testimony for Maryland's House Ways and Means Committee
As submitted for the public record on March 1, 2019
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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: "What is there to learn from Finland's basic income experiment? Did it succeed or fail?"
Understanding Finland's experiment of partial basic income and slightly fewer conditions
I've just published a new feature-length article over on Medium where I get into the preliminary results of the basic income experiment in Finland "What is There to Learn From Finland’s Basic Income Experiment? Did It Succeed or Fail?".
Here's an excerpt from the beginning:
After two years of . . .
Eating food will fail to reduce malnutrition, new report warns
How to recognize when an anti-UBI title is "fake news"
The OECD recently published a report on basic income as a policy option for the future of work. It concluded that universal basic income would require large tax increases to avoid increasing poverty. Others have since picked up on the report with headlines like, "Universal basic income would fail to cut poverty, says OECD" which . . .
Posted in: costpartial basic incomepoverty
Basic Income Observations Log: Entry One
The Importance of Security
If you're reading this as a subscriber to my blog or as one of my followers on Twitter or Facebook, you likely already know this, but if you're new to my writing, you may not yet know that I have a crowdfunded basic income through Patreon. Beginning my campaign for $1,000 per month in late 2014, I reached that goal at the end of 2015, . . .
Why should adults with kids get more basic income?
The question of child allowances
This is a question that shows a particular perspective in the very way it's framed.
What about this question instead:
"Why should kids get basic incomes too, and not just adults?"
They might look like they are basically the same, but they contain different viewpoints.
Here's the deal. I . . .
