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SWITZERLAND: Five Weeks Before the Vote: Basic Income Reaches a All-Time High in National Polls

According to Basic Income Switzerland, just five weeks before Switzerland holds the world’s first vote on the introduction of an Unconditional Basic Income (UBI), support for the policy has almost doubled since the beginning of the year. This increase is the opposite of the usual trend in Switzerland where initiatives tend to decline in popularity in the weeks before a

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ONTARIO Canada: polls show increase in support for Basic Income

A Forum Research poll, released March 26th, reveals that support for a basic income has increased in the Canadian province of Ontario. According to the report, “In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll among 1225 Ontario voters, the plurality, 4-in-10, approve of an Ontario basic income to replace social assistance and other provincial support payments

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ALASKA, USA: New poll shows declining support for the Alaska Dividend

A recent poll asking Alaskans how to deal with the state’s increasingly severe budget deficit found that trimming the Permanent Fund Dividend or PFD (also know as “the Alaska Dividend”) was the most popular solution. The poll also found that a second strategy for trimming the dividend was third in popularity. The Alaska dividend is the closest program to a

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Kristin Eberhard, “What if polluters paid and you got the money?”

Kristin Eberhard describes two promising bills from the Oregon legislature which, if implemented, would simultaneously cut carbon pollution and pay a basic income to every Oregon citizen. A Trust Fund would be created to fund this basic income, as long as there exists a need to pay for pollution, which is expected to last at least until 2050.   Kristin

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