Kate McFarland is a freelance writer and researcher. In December 2016 she received a grant from the Economic Security Project in recognition of her work for Basic Income News. Based on her experience, she has written in opposition to the monetization of volunteer labor. Despite this, she remains grateful for her supporters on Patreon (though she prefers anonymous donations to guard against both potential sources of bias in her work and the encroachment of market norms into her social relationships).
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Overview of Current Basic Income Related Experiments (October 2017)
It seems that 2017 has been a watershed year for the global basic income movement, as multiple governments and private research groups have independently conceived and launched experimental trials of basic income (and closely related policies). Several new experiments in North America and Europe represent the first such experiments in the developed world since the 1970s (when a negative income tax was tested in several cities in the United States and Canada), and the largest basic income trial ever designed is about to take place in Kenya.
November 2, 2017
