In the matter of where things stand on basic income in Canada, I find that a great deal depends on how it is named and framed. By clearing away some…  

I graduated with a PhD in sociology from the CUNY Graduate Center in 1996. Shortly after, I co-founded a network of academics and activists interested in promoting discussion of the…  

Universal basic income (UBI) is in the news, and is being considered by leading politicians (including Obama and Clinton), titans of business (including Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Hughes, and venture…  

Arguments surrounding a Universal Basic Income (UBI) often center around its predicted impact on the labor market—whether the introduction of a universal basic income will cause workers to quit their…  

The decoupling of income from work can liberate work from the perverse influence of monetary incentives. The goal of this article, however, is not to defend the thesis that monetary incentives…  

The official poverty rate, which now stands at 13 percent, has never fallen below 11 percent since it was first defined in the 1960s. The persistence of poverty in the…  

Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election has understandably sparked considerable debate among political analysts regarding the reason that Trump won. In this paper, we present…