From Universal Basic Income to Guaranteed Basic Income: An Experiment for Cities on the Brink

Marc Doussard — 2024-12-17T06:00:00Z

Surprisingly, US cities have led the charge in basic-income experiments, despite the country's aversion to social welfare and cities' limited resources and authority to do so. Marc Doussard explains how and why this happened, and what it means for cities and basic income.
When the idea of universal basic income began gaining popularity in the mid-2010s, the eventual breakthrough of no-strings-attached cash transfers seemed most likely to transpire anywhere but the United States. After all,

- Essays / guaranteed basic income, universal basic income, basic income, United States

Sale of the Century: Chicago's Infrastructure Deals and the Privatization State

Philip Ashton & Marc Doussard & Rachel Weber — 2020-11-24T06:00:00Z

Since 2004, the City of Chicago has been engaged in a new wave of infrastructure privatizations, selling concessions to financial institutions. Philip Ashton, Marc Doussard and Rachel Weber analyze the consequences of these transfers in detail, in terms of both public action and the impact on users, and identify lessons to be learned from this new way of doing things, whereby firms mine the city for potential revenue streams.
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- From the Field / financialization, privatization, infrastructure, infrastructures, urban services, Chicago, United States

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From Universal Basic Income to Guaranteed Basic Income: An Experiment for Cities on the Brink

Sale of the Century: Chicago's Infrastructure Deals and the Privatization State