Te Utu Tika Hei Oranga i Aotearoa – Basic Income New Zealand

WELCOME TO BASIC INCOME

WELCOME TO BASIC INCOME

Basic Income

the Poverty Fix

Promotes a fairer society

goes a long way to

make a happier and healthier society

Basic Income New Zealand

Te Utu Tika Hei Oranga I Aotearoa

A ‘Basic Income’ is an income granted unconditionally to all citizens, as individuals, without distinctions, means-testing, or work requirements.
When there are fewer jobs people will still need enough income to buy what businesses produce.

A basic income allows businesses to fully embrace new technology and have customers.
Delaying Basic Income is already causing hardship in families and communities.
Advances in automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are making jobs insecure.

What is happening is out of our hands.

A 2013 study from Oxford University argues that 47 percent of all existing jobs may be lost by 2033.

See the resources page to find more sources.
A Basic Income does not need to cost any more than the current welfare system. It is simply a different mechanism for distributing income.

There are various proposals for introducing BI in New Zealand that we show on the website.

Most of the proposals involve tax changes for people with earned income.
Reflect on the saying, “If you give a man a fish he eats for a day. If you teach a man to fish, he eats for life.”

Basic Income advocate, Scott Santens has asked, “If you build a robot to fish, do all men starve, or do all men eat?”

Visit http://www.scottsantens.com/ to see the work Santens is doing.
A Basic Income for children is an answer to child poverty according to principal at Horizon Research, Graeme Coleman.

Image: Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye
Treasury recommended investigating Basic Income for the Welfare Working Group.


Newshub – Aug 3 2018
BINZ has announced their campaign for a Basic Income for all New Zealand Children.

Excerpt from Press Release: “if we are serious about eliminating child poverty here in New Zealand, the Government is well placed to lead the world in 2017 by implementing a Universal Basic Income for Children”
The financial security a basic income offers would allow everyone to choose how they balance their work, family, and community commitments.

People would have more choices. They could choose to start businesses, volunteer, take chances to advance their careers, or stay at home with their children.
Evidence from pilot studies show that Basic Income only reduces hours in paid work for children and mothers, which suggests that Basic Income would be beneficial for child development and education.

Other demographics are largely unaffected in terms of work hours.

See this piece of research on a Canadian pilot:
Forget, Evelyn L. “The Town with No Poverty: The Health Effects of a Canadian Guaranteed Annual Income Field Experiment.” Canadian Public Publicy 37, no. 3 (2011): 283-305.