It's International Basic Income Week 2020 and we're living in the future.  But how close are we to making basic income a reality?  How far have we come and how far do we still have to go?  Does the world even agree on how to think about, or talk about basic income?  What will it take to get basic income supporters and skeptics on the same page?

To help us sort out these and other questions, we're bringing in featured guest Jason Burke Murphy.  Jason is a philosophy professor and political organizer who has been writing about basic income for over a decade.  He also serves on the board of directors for the US Basic Income Guarantee Network (USBIG).

For optional reading, we have a 2016 article by Jason entitled "Basic Income as Proposal, as Project, and as Idea."

https://basicincome.org/news/2016/06/basic-income-as-proposal-as-project-and-as-idea/

Previous related Boston Basic Income topics have included: "Skepticism of the Idea," "Basic Income vs. Job Guarantee," and "A World Without Basic Income"

Photo by Stefan Bohrer

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