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"title": "Basic Income Pilots - Mon 27th July",
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"description": "BASIC INCOME PILOTS - LEARNING FROM SCOTLAND & FINLAND Join our panel of experts as we discuss the role pilots play in advocating for Basic Income Monday 27th July, 6.30-7.45pm Basic Income has rocketed up the political agenda throughout the COVID-19 crisis as policy makers explore the idea as a potential response to shocks to the labour market and as a long term permement reform to social security systems around the world. But Basic Income is not a new idea - in fact - countries have been experimenting with Basic Income and direct cash transfers for years. Evidence from experiments in the United States, Canada, Finland, India, Netherlands, Kenya, South Korea and elsewhere is mounting up about Basic Income's potential benefits. Calls for Basic Income pilots in the UK are rapidly accelerating with seven local authorties expressing their interest in carrying out experiments. But how would pilots actually work? What can we actually learn from them? Are they a step towards policy change or a distraction from the wider goal of full implementation? We will be discussing this and more on Monday 27th July, 6.30-7.45pm as part of the Basic Income Conversation's Summer Discussion Series with the following speakers: Olli Kangas (Director of Equal Society Research at Academy of Finland and Professor of Practice at Department of Social Sciences at the University of Turku, Finland) Olli has one of the leading designers of Finland's 2 year experiment with Basic Income, the final results of which were announced in June this year. Olli oversaw the pilot at Kela (the Social Insurance Institution in Finland) as the scientific director of the experiment which saw 2000 unemployed Finns receive a Basic Income between 2016-2018. Olli will share some of the experiment's findings and offer his insight into the wider pilots debate. Paul Vaughan (Head of Communities and Neighbourhoods at Fife Council and a member of the Scottish Citizen Basic Income Feasibility Study steering group) Paul has been a key member of Scotland's recent Feasibility Study exploring basic income pilots in Scotland, the report of which was released in June. The study was carried out by four local authorities including Paul's own Fife Council and was funded by the Scottish government. The report found pilots in Scotland are desirable but there are political barriers to implementation. Paul will share some of the study's findings and discuss next steps for pilots in Scotland. Michael Pugh (Director & Co-Founder of the Basic Income Conversation and Churchill Fellow) Michael will host the conversation with Olli & Paul. Before helping to set up the Basic Income Conversation, Michael visited the United States, Canada and India to visit people and organisations involved in basic income pilots that have taken place in those countries. The format will be a conversation between our three speakers, hosted by Michael, with you getting a chance to ask the panelists questions in the Q&A. This is the second event in a summer research discussion series hosted by the Basic Income Conversation. There will be a discussion on Basic Income and the Future of Work on Wednesday 15th July and on Basic Income and Monetary Financing on Monday 10th August - do sign up to those too. The event is free and you'll be sent zoom details upon registering.",
"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/forms/basic-income-pilots-mon-27th-july"
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