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Basic Income (basic + income)
Selected AbstractsLone mothers, workfare and precarious employment: Time for a Canadian Basic Income?INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY REVIEW, Issue 1 2009Patricia M. Evans Abstract The growth of precarious employment poses significant challenges to current social assistance income support policies yet it remains largely neglected in policy-making arenas. Drawing upon qualitative data from a study in Ontario, Canada, this paper examines the particular implications of these challenges for lone mothers, who figure prominently both in non-standard employment and as targets for workfare policies. In the context of changing labour markets, the article considers the potential strengths and limitations of Basic Income approaches to achieving economic security for lone mothers. [source] Basic Income, Self-Respect and ReciprocityJOURNAL OF APPLIED PHILOSOPHY, Issue 2 2003Catriona Mckinnon Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison , Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion. From Philip Larkin, ,Toads'. ABSTRACT This paper mounts a Rawlsian argument for unconditional basic income on the grounds that it maximins the distribution of income and wealth understood as a social basis of self-respect. The most important objection to this argument available to Rawlsians is that basic income violates the demands of reciprocity, where reciprocity in any scheme of distribution is a requirement of justice. The second half of the paper addresses this objection. It is argued there that even if the objection can be made successfully by Rawlsians (and this is not clear), it is not sufficient to divest them of a commitment to basic income, given some practical considerations about the implementation of alternatives to basic income. [source] The likelihood of a basic income in GermanyINTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY REVIEW, Issue 3 2008Michael Opielka Abstract The article discusses whether the likelihood of Germany introducing a basic income policy , that is independent of labour market participation , has increased in recent years. A brief description of the main elements of the German welfare state is followed by a critical analysis of more recent developments in guaranteeing a basic income, not least with the 2003 merger of unemployment benefits and social assistance. Since then the resulting fears of downward mobility felt even by the middle classes have reignited the 1980's debate about a basic income. Two models (the "basic income guarantee" and the "solidarity citizen's income") are used to discuss practical system design problems and the chances of realizing a basic income policy. [source] Basic Income, Self-Respect and ReciprocityJOURNAL OF APPLIED PHILOSOPHY, Issue 2 2003Catriona Mckinnon Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison , Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion. From Philip Larkin, ,Toads'. ABSTRACT This paper mounts a Rawlsian argument for unconditional basic income on the grounds that it maximins the distribution of income and wealth understood as a social basis of self-respect. The most important objection to this argument available to Rawlsians is that basic income violates the demands of reciprocity, where reciprocity in any scheme of distribution is a requirement of justice. The second half of the paper addresses this objection. It is argued there that even if the objection can be made successfully by Rawlsians (and this is not clear), it is not sufficient to divest them of a commitment to basic income, given some practical considerations about the implementation of alternatives to basic income. [source] | ||||||||||