Everyone who heard the basic income raised their hands.
OK, there are a few of you.
The idea behind basic income
Every citizen gets
Sufficient unconditional guaranteed income
To deal with basic living expenses.
This recent philosophy has led to some interesting political alliances.
This recent philosophy has led to some interesting political alliances.
Former union leader Andy. Stern and conservative scholar Charles. Murray
Both wrote books on this subject.
Cato Institute and “Value for Black Life Campaign”
Both are basic income endorsements, although the perspectives of the two are very different.
Just last week,
President Obama’s proposal for basic income will be part of the nationwide discussion in the next 20 years.
Now I know what you are thinking:
What are you doing on the stage?
Why aren’t the people you just mentioned are on the stage?
(laughter)
The short answer is that I promised to come to power but they did not agree.
(laughter)
But the more detailed answer is
I am both a student of public policy and a beneficiary of public policy.
I believe that public policy has the power to transform lives.
And I think basic income
It is a road leading to a more just future.
As you heard at the meeting, this concept is a bit different from others.
As you heard at the meeting, this concept is a bit different from others.
Because it is not a new idea at all.
Thomas. In fact, Paine first proposed basic income as the economic right of every citizen in 1792.
In the 1960s,
Milton. Freman and Martin. Luther. Gold
Both proposed to use basic income to fight the poverty in the United States.
It was Richard in 1971. Nixon’s rule has almost become the law of the entire people of this country.
I can see several people in the auditorium thinking:
“Give money to everyone, it’s not America,” right?
These people do not need a check.
They need a job and they need to make better decisions.
If we send money to everyone,
This will create a culture of dependence.
Will cause laziness and depravity.
But in recent decades, social science research
Point out that we have many ideas about poverty and the poor
It’s all wrong.
Poor choices do not lead to poverty:
In fact, poverty can limit choices.
Causes unbearable results in unexpected ways.
A study points out the impact of poverty on your financial, health, and job-related choices.
Equal to loss of 13 points IQ.
Related to poverty,
Such as violence, malnutrition, bad performance and pollution,
It can hinder the development of the brain, especially the brain development of young people.
So poverty is the cause of poor choices rather than effects.
Trying to fight poverty by changing behavior will not work:
The opposite is true:
Cash transfer is one of the ways we can expand our choices and achieve better results for families.
I will use my own family as an example.
My mother Denise was born here in Washington.
She is the youngest of the seven children.
My grandmother desperately provided all the basic needs of the post office worker’s salary.
It is cash transfer,
Unanticipated transfer of cash issued in the form of social security wills
Let my mother enter university.
She is the first person in my family to earn a degree.
The degree is awarded here at the University of Washington.
There are no unconditional cash transfers.
The choice between her and me will be very different today.
This is not just about my family:
Studies that have been conducted in many countries for decades
All show that basic income does not encourage non-work,
In fact it encourages entrepreneurship.
And let people continue to study.
People who receive basic income show that health and nutrition have improved.
Randomized controlled trials in Kenya and Uganda show that
Basic income did not result in a statistically significant increase in alcohol or tobacco consumption.
So if the success of cash transfer is a reason to support basic income,
Another reason is employment.
That is, people need a job concept.
It is no longer a guarantee of keeping people away from poverty.
The cash transfer transferred my mother to the middle class.
But it was the work of her public school teacher.
Let us stay in the middle class.
What happened in the past 30 years
It is those jobs that slowly disappear.
Those who provide retirement benefits, paid vacations, and regular pay increases.
The three largest employers in 1960 were General Motors, AT&T and Ford.
Those places are all good posts that offer trade union protection.
The three largest employers are Wal-Mart, McDonald’s and Yum!
Those are places where workers are desperate to go beyond the poverty line.
Lawrence, Massachusetts
Once a town with many factories, I taught in elementary schools there.
The median household income in the region is $6,300 less than in 1980.
Mostly because of jobs that replace factory jobs
The treatment provided is not good enough for factory jobs and there are not enough benefits.
Now some of the more optimistic policy makers will say that these we have heard before,
At any time in the past,
The new opportunities created by new technologies have always been more than those replaced or cancelled.
This is true to some extent.
So if you are a public carriage driver, you can get a job as a truck driver.
But what about the horses?
In 1900, the United States had more than 21 million horses.
In 1960, the number has dropped to more than 3 million.
Now a Ford Focus car can do 160 horse jobs.
Because of the revolution in the computer, we have machines that can handle the mental work of hundreds of people.
There have been algorithms that have surpassed radiologists in the detection of cancerous tumors.
Associated Press Application Software
Write 3,000 financial reports every quarter.
Imagine how many journalists were eliminated.
A study at Oxford University
Found 47% of Americans, that is, nearly half of the country’s labor force,
All face the risk of losing jobs due to computers or machines.
We cannot just train another half of the workforce.
We need policies like basic income
Going to provide employment has provided stability.
Now we have seen
The ever-increasing disparity and the continued increase in inequality have had an impact on the political and social system.
Inequality is corrosive to democracy.
I don’t have to tell you these:
You can take a newspaper and see any headline news.
It will be seen that inequality is corrosive to democracy.
If we seriously consider strengthening our social contract
And prepare yourself for the next century,
We need a policy like basic income.
Not just race, class or gender inequality;
But local inequality.
Washington is the most obvious example of a city divided between the rich and the poor.
But this is also a regional issue.
A 2015 study of the top 10 most affluent counties,
Five of these discoveries are located here in the Washington area.
Only one of the ten counties is not located in the northeast corridor.
At the same time as the town of Woonsouth, Rhode Island, hit hard by the recession,
Relying on the welfare of food vouchers worth a total of 2 million U.S. dollars,
In order to promote the local economy,
These towns can only silently decline.
We cannot focus our economic activities on Washington, New York and Silicon Valley.
At the same time, the towns of Wensowit were allowed to die.
We can no longer pretend that the previous post will come back.
Or there is a job enough to ride the future.
We cannot just ask people to change their behavior.
And ignore their basic needs.
It is now more than ever
Write new rules for our new economy,
Just as we were a century ago
Deciding that children belong to the school and not to the factory;
Decide that we can provide social security for the elderly,
As a kind of national right that we are born with;
Decided on eight hours of hard work
Enough to let you live your dreams with dignity.
I believe we will face difficulties;
The idea may be unknown,
But our people are indomitable.
Thank you everyone.
(Applause)
OK, there are a few of you.
The idea behind basic income
Every citizen gets
Sufficient unconditional guaranteed income
To deal with basic living expenses.
This recent philosophy has led to some interesting political alliances.
This recent philosophy has led to some interesting political alliances.
Former union leader Andy. Stern and conservative scholar Charles. Murray
Both wrote books on this subject.
Cato Institute and “Value for Black Life Campaign”
Both are basic income endorsements, although the perspectives of the two are very different.
Just last week,
President Obama’s proposal for basic income will be part of the nationwide discussion in the next 20 years.
Now I know what you are thinking:
What are you doing on the stage?
Why aren’t the people you just mentioned are on the stage?
(laughter)
The short answer is that I promised to come to power but they did not agree.
(laughter)
But the more detailed answer is
I am both a student of public policy and a beneficiary of public policy.
I believe that public policy has the power to transform lives.
And I think basic income
It is a road leading to a more just future.
As you heard at the meeting, this concept is a bit different from others.
As you heard at the meeting, this concept is a bit different from others.
Because it is not a new idea at all.
Thomas. In fact, Paine first proposed basic income as the economic right of every citizen in 1792.
In the 1960s,
Milton. Freman and Martin. Luther. Gold
Both proposed to use basic income to fight the poverty in the United States.
It was Richard in 1971. Nixon’s rule has almost become the law of the entire people of this country.
I can see several people in the auditorium thinking:
“Give money to everyone, it’s not America,” right?
These people do not need a check.
They need a job and they need to make better decisions.
If we send money to everyone,
This will create a culture of dependence.
Will cause laziness and depravity.
But in recent decades, social science research
Point out that we have many ideas about poverty and the poor
It’s all wrong.
Poor choices do not lead to poverty:
In fact, poverty can limit choices.
Causes unbearable results in unexpected ways.
A study points out the impact of poverty on your financial, health, and job-related choices.
Equal to loss of 13 points IQ.
Related to poverty,
Such as violence, malnutrition, bad performance and pollution,
It can hinder the development of the brain, especially the brain development of young people.
So poverty is the cause of poor choices rather than effects.
Trying to fight poverty by changing behavior will not work:
The opposite is true:
Cash transfer is one of the ways we can expand our choices and achieve better results for families.
I will use my own family as an example.
My mother Denise was born here in Washington.
She is the youngest of the seven children.
My grandmother desperately provided all the basic needs of the post office worker’s salary.
It is cash transfer,
Unanticipated transfer of cash issued in the form of social security wills
Let my mother enter university.
She is the first person in my family to earn a degree.
The degree is awarded here at the University of Washington.
There are no unconditional cash transfers.
The choice between her and me will be very different today.
This is not just about my family:
Studies that have been conducted in many countries for decades
All show that basic income does not encourage non-work,
In fact it encourages entrepreneurship.
And let people continue to study.
People who receive basic income show that health and nutrition have improved.
Randomized controlled trials in Kenya and Uganda show that
Basic income did not result in a statistically significant increase in alcohol or tobacco consumption.
So if the success of cash transfer is a reason to support basic income,
Another reason is employment.
That is, people need a job concept.
It is no longer a guarantee of keeping people away from poverty.
The cash transfer transferred my mother to the middle class.
But it was the work of her public school teacher.
Let us stay in the middle class.
What happened in the past 30 years
It is those jobs that slowly disappear.
Those who provide retirement benefits, paid vacations, and regular pay increases.
The three largest employers in 1960 were General Motors, AT&T and Ford.
Those places are all good posts that offer trade union protection.
The three largest employers are Wal-Mart, McDonald’s and Yum!
Those are places where workers are desperate to go beyond the poverty line.
Lawrence, Massachusetts
Once a town with many factories, I taught in elementary schools there.
The median household income in the region is $6,300 less than in 1980.
Mostly because of jobs that replace factory jobs
The treatment provided is not good enough for factory jobs and there are not enough benefits.
Now some of the more optimistic policy makers will say that these we have heard before,
At any time in the past,
The new opportunities created by new technologies have always been more than those replaced or cancelled.
This is true to some extent.
So if you are a public carriage driver, you can get a job as a truck driver.
But what about the horses?
In 1900, the United States had more than 21 million horses.
In 1960, the number has dropped to more than 3 million.
Now a Ford Focus car can do 160 horse jobs.
Because of the revolution in the computer, we have machines that can handle the mental work of hundreds of people.
There have been algorithms that have surpassed radiologists in the detection of cancerous tumors.
Associated Press Application Software
Write 3,000 financial reports every quarter.
Imagine how many journalists were eliminated.
A study at Oxford University
Found 47% of Americans, that is, nearly half of the country’s labor force,
All face the risk of losing jobs due to computers or machines.
We cannot just train another half of the workforce.
We need policies like basic income
Going to provide employment has provided stability.
Now we have seen
The ever-increasing disparity and the continued increase in inequality have had an impact on the political and social system.
Inequality is corrosive to democracy.
I don’t have to tell you these:
You can take a newspaper and see any headline news.
It will be seen that inequality is corrosive to democracy.
If we seriously consider strengthening our social contract
And prepare yourself for the next century,
We need a policy like basic income.
Not just race, class or gender inequality;
But local inequality.
Washington is the most obvious example of a city divided between the rich and the poor.
But this is also a regional issue.
A 2015 study of the top 10 most affluent counties,
Five of these discoveries are located here in the Washington area.
Only one of the ten counties is not located in the northeast corridor.
At the same time as the town of Woonsouth, Rhode Island, hit hard by the recession,
Relying on the welfare of food vouchers worth a total of 2 million U.S. dollars,
In order to promote the local economy,
These towns can only silently decline.
We cannot focus our economic activities on Washington, New York and Silicon Valley.
At the same time, the towns of Wensowit were allowed to die.
We can no longer pretend that the previous post will come back.
Or there is a job enough to ride the future.
We cannot just ask people to change their behavior.
And ignore their basic needs.
It is now more than ever
Write new rules for our new economy,
Just as we were a century ago
Deciding that children belong to the school and not to the factory;
Decide that we can provide social security for the elderly,
As a kind of national right that we are born with;
Decided on eight hours of hard work
Enough to let you live your dreams with dignity.
I believe we will face difficulties;
The idea may be unknown,
But our people are indomitable.
Thank you everyone.
(Applause)
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