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About studying the feasibility and impact of Basic Income (citizens wage) in Estonia : an initiative collecting support signatures in citizens initative portal rahvaalgatus.ee . It suggests a national study about whather the Basic Income is possible at all in Estonia. The study would contain also some tests. The initiative shoulc collect at least 1000 signatures It collected 1014 digital signatures + dozens on paper form.
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citizens wage : a popular term meaning unconditional basic income. In Estonia, it is the first and most popular term when speaking about UBI. The critics suggest that "kodanikupalk" as term is confusing as palk (wage) means money for job and "kodaniku-" (citizen) would mean the UBI is targeted only for citizens (not for all legal inhabitants). As an alternative, "popular stipendium" is proposed.
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European Citizens Initiative for an Unconditional Basic Income : 2013 - 2014 A campaign aimed to deliver the question about UBI on the EC desk
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Experimenting with Basic Income: Finland and Netherlands : The workshop “Experimenting with Basic Income: Finland and the Netherlands” brought Dutch researchers from Utrecht, Wageningen and Tilburg to Helsinki to explore both similarities and differences between the proposed schemes, to examine the role of basic income experiments in each country, and to analyse the political and policy processes associated with piloting basic income in advanced welfare states.
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Friedman, Milton : American economist, statistician, and writer who taught at the University of Chicago for more than three decades. He was a recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and is known for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and the complexity of stabilization policy. Friedman proposed the replacement of the existing U.S. welfare system with a negative income tax, a progressive tax system in which the poor receive a basic living incom (...)
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Jourdan, Stanislas : journalist, UBI activist from France
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Kennedy, Joseph : an economist and attorney. He has held several positions in the public and private sectors, including Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Commerce, General Counsel for the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Senior Economist with the Joint Economic Committee in Congress.
Mr. Kennedy is the author of Ending Poverty: Changing Behavior, Guaranteeing Income, and Transforming Government (Rowman & Littlefield, August 2008). He also writes the blog Law, Econ (...)
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Ketelaars, Robin : IT-specialist, UBI activist from Netherlands
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Kunnus, Mihkel : Estonian semiologist, writer and literary criticist. In 2016, he proposed to implement a narrowed mode of Basic Income - personalized citizenʼs currency with a limited usage area
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letter of thirteen citizens : a public letter where Estoian authorities and also MEP-s were called to introduce immediately an UBI at least as an emergency measure during the corona pancemic. There was 13 signatories at the moment of spreading it to authorities and media.
