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The UBI Center is a think tank that researches universal basic income policies.

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🚨 NEW RESEARCH 🚨 For the cost of today's announced tax cuts, @trussliz could send every UK resident £250. This trade would: ✅ Benefit 2 in 3 people ✅ Cut poverty 7.7% ✅ Cut inequality (Gini index) 2.1% Read our full report from @nikhil_woodruff 👇 ubicenter.org/truss-tax-cuts

Universal payments would be more progressive than Liz Truss’ tax cuts

See the head-to-head in PolicyEngine

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See our study on a land value dividend in the UK: ubicenter.org/uk-lvt
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@CommonWealth_ca6 Jun 2024
Indexing a basic income to growing land values is the ultimate way to tie society's progress to basic human flourishing.
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We can do a small universal basic income right now, and we could choose to do it in a way that wouldn't increase the money supply at all, by pairing it with an annually rising carbon fee. What could be $65/mo in UBI to start could exceed $100/mo in year 4 and $200/mo in year 8.
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Women are nearly 20% more likely to be in poverty than men. Universal basic income policies can shrink that gap by more than half. #InternationalWomensDay ubicenter.org/womens-day-202…

UBI as a means of reducing gendered poverty

Women are 17% more likely to be in poverty than men, but basic income would shrink the gap.

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Our inaugural forum of Hypertext dives into one overlooked aspect of Milton Friedman’s thought — his advocacy of an unconditional negative income tax (NIT) that would create an income floor no American could fall below. niskanencenter.org/unconditi…

Free money: Milton Friedman, unconditional income, and the neoliberal inheritance - Niskanen Center

The neoliberal thought that dominated our politics for decades is often summarized as a relentless push to expand the market, shrink the state, and impose strict conditions on social insurance. But...

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Today we are announcing Hypertext, the Niskanen Center journal - a monthly forum for thinkers to publish essays exploring the big ideas that drive our work. *First issue drops Monday, 11/27.* Subscribe: hypertextjournal.substack.co…
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Reflecting this #VeteransDay on our 2020 research: A $300/month UBI could reduce veteran poverty by half. A crucial insight as we honor our veterans. Explore the study: ubicenter.org/veterans

A $300-per-month UBI would cut Veteran poverty in half

Unconditional cash would fill in gaps of VA programs.

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Congratulations to our founder, Max Ghenis, for his award-winning research! The study, published by UBI Center, highlights the nuanced impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act's EV credits and the importance of informed policy decisions. 🏆
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@MaxGhenis5 Oct 2023
Honored to receive the Robert Corrin Prize for Outstanding Research at today's Savings and Retirement Foundation meeting for my presentation on "Work Incentives Under the Inflation Reduction Act". Thanks to co-directors Ike Brannon and Daniel Corrin, and the entire SRF community!
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New study: Workshops aimed at lifting aspirations enhance living standards of people in poverty. Yet, when paired with cash transfers, they don't outperform cash alone, which independently boosts aspirations too. #PovertyAlleviation #EconomicDevelopment nber.org/papers/w31735

Aspiring to a Better Future: Can a Simple Psychological Intervention Reduce Poverty?

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New study: An extra $1,000 from Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend transfers early in a child's life leads to a 10% reduction in referrals to Child Protective Services by age three. #UBI #ChildWelfare nber.org/papers/w31733

Effects of Universal and Unconditional Cash Transfers on Child Abuse and Neglect

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Yesterday, @RepCarbajal reintroduced the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act as H.R.5744. We found that a similarly structured carbon fee-and-dividend policy would cut US poverty by 10% within a decade. ubicenter.org/us-carbon-divi…

Carbon dividends as anti-poverty policy

A $100-per-ton carbon dividend would cut poverty by 10% and deep child poverty by 27%.

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@sama24 Jul 2023
worldcoin launches today: worldcoin.org/

World - The real human network

World ensures that every human benefits from the age of AI. Join millions of real humans in 160 countries with World ID and World App.

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Don't miss our CEO @MaxGhenis discussing cliffs alongside leaders from @mothersoutreach, @DCFPI, @BreadfortheCity, @mayorsforagi, and @whitmanwalker. Starting in one hour on Zoom!
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"We should instead feel hopeful: Cash transfers are a proven way to accelerate the transformation of the poorest economies." –– read @caroline_teti's response to @AntonJaegermm & @DanielZamoraV's cash transfers critique in @PostOpinions washingtonpost.com/opinions/…

Opinion | Cash transfers help more than the individual

People in poverty know their needs better than experts thousands of miles away.

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.@GiveDirectly is hiring a Policy Director! "We want you to lead our long-term policy influencing efforts around the potential of cash to address poverty" boards.greenhouse.io/givedir…

GiveDirectly

GiveDirectly aims to reshape international giving. We provide an end-to-end platform that enables funders to provide direct cash transfers to people living in poverty. We are among the fastest-grow...

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"Our findings illustrate how the monthly [child tax] credit allowed parents to gain residential independence from partners, reduce the number of people residing in their household, and reduce their past-due rent/mortgage." nber.org/papers/w31339?utm_c…

The 2021 Child Tax Credit, the Living Arrangements and Housing Affordability of Families with Low...

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🌼 #HappyMothersDay! Our report shows that a $200/month child allowance could lift a million moms out of poverty, benefiting mental health & child development. 🌟👩‍👧‍👦 ubicenter.org/us-mothers-day

How a child allowance would lift moms out of poverty

A $200 per month child allowance would lift a million mothers out of poverty.

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🚨MEGA BLOG: if transformative AI causes the value of labour to drop to zero (as per @OpenAI's @sama) - could Basic Income save the day?🚨 @ASI's @connoraxiotes, @AndrewYang's Senior Advisor @scottsantens, & @nikhil_woodruff of @ThePolicyEngine discuss. adamsmith.org/blog/basic-inc…

Basic income and AI-induced unemployment — Adam Smith Institute

Authored by : Connor Axiotes (Adam Smith Institute) Nikhil Woodruff (UBI Centre & Policy Engine) Scott Santens (Humanity Forward) ‘ Automation has been transforming the labour market for decades and...

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📚✨ New @NatureComms study reveals state-level macro-economic factors impact the link between low income, brain structure & mental health in U.S. kids. Generous cash benefits for low-income families can help reduce disparities! 🧠🌟 nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

State-level macro-economic factors moderate the association of low income with brain structure and...

Nature Communications - Lower income is associated with smaller hippocampal volume and mental health problems. Here, the authors show that this association is weaker in areas of the United States...

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A new paper from Chase H. Dorn of @UofSC_Econ uses PolicyEngine to simulate a set of four policy reforms, involving universal basic income, Social Security, and individual income taxes. #PoweredByPolicyEngine scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/vi…
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"We estimate the extensive and intensive margin labor supply response to the monthly Child Tax Credit disbursed in 2021 as a part of the American Rescue Plan Act. [...] We do not find strong evidence of a change in labor supply." nber.org/papers/w31110

The Short-Term Labor Supply Response to the Expanded Child Tax Credit

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🚨 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 At the UBI Center, our goal is to reach those who need our work the most. Inspired by top targeting systems globally, we're excited to introduce the UBI Center Research Access Program! 🎓💡
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Keep us updated on any changes for impeccable targeting! 📊🎯 We'll also kindly verify income, assets, and your usage of our work every seven weeks. 🙏 Let's make a real difference together. 🌍💪
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Apply at [email protected] to join the UBI Center Research Access Program today! 📚 ubicenter.org/#subscribe

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Analyzing universal basic income policies with open-source research

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