8/12/19 – In several blog posts, I’ve been diving deeper into guaranteed income as a way to ensure people can meet their basic needs and get on—and stay on—a pathway to lifelong success. Might direct cash payments—in the form of what most call universal basic income (UBI)—be an alternative to the programs that comprise America’s broken social safety net?
Tag: Universal Basic Income

Radically Resident-Driven
In several blog posts, I’ve been diving deeper into guaranteed income as a way to ensure people can meet their basic needs and get on and stay on a pathway to lifelong success.
Government Benefits and Trust in People (Lessons from Stockton, California – Part 2)
7/29/19 – How does a guaranteed income impact financial insecurity and volatility? To what degree will a guaranteed income impact drivers of inequity and social determinants of health? How does guaranteed income unleash potential among recipients and generate agency over one’s future?

Government Benefits and Trust in People
How does a guaranteed income impact financial insecurity and volatility? To what degree will a guaranteed income impact drivers of inequity and social determinants of health?
What Might $500 Do? (Lessons from Stockton, California – Part 1)
7/15/19 – Those of you who have been reading my blog know that I’ve been calling for a new social contract, one that puts more people on a lifelong pathway to success, aimed at realizing—as a country—population-level change and reduced disparities…

What Might $500 Do?
Those of you who have been reading my blog know that I’ve been calling for a new social contract, one that puts more people on a lifelong pathway to success, aimed at realizing…
Just What Are “Basic Needs” in the 21st Century?
7/1/19 – The adjective “basic” describes something that forms an essential foundation; the noun “need” refers to something required. From this we can cobble together a dictionary definition of “basic needs,” but thankfully, centuries of various writing…

Just What Are Basic Needs in the 21st Century?
The adjective basic describes something that forms an essential foundation; the noun need refers to something required. From this, we can cobble together a dictionary definition of basic needs…

Is a Universal Basic Income a Key Ingredient?
When I ponder the to-what-end question that has motivated so much of what I’ve written since launching this blog a few months back, and particularly when I’m working on one of the many projects