{"id":2771,"date":"2022-12-13T19:56:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T03:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2022-12-13T20:02:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T04:02:56","slug":"the-case-for-a-universal-basic-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/the-case-for-a-universal-basic-income\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case for a Universal Basic Income"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">(Based on my presentation at Global Forum for Democratizing Work, October 6, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/662\/2022\/07\/UBIforZcommrevised.pdf\">Non-Reformist Universal Basic Income<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A substantive and non-neoliberal Universal Basic Income (UBI) could substantially improve people\u2019s lives, is feasible and possible and can be a step towards a revolutionary transformation of a society towards participatory socialism. There is no conflict with related proposals for Universal Basic Services, a UBS, or with a Guaranteed Jobs Program.  A UBI is expensive although it is economically feasible within a capitalist society such as the U.S. although it will require major taxes on the wealthy.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,10,14],"tags":[17,57,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2776,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions\/2776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}