Basic Income Guarantee: Your Right to Economic Security

by Allan Sheahen

1. It's Time to Think BIG
2. So What's the BIG Idea?
3. Why Did We Lose the War on Poverty?
4. Did You Know?
5. Why Are Jobs Not the Answer?
6. Why Is There So Much Inequality in the United States?
7. How Do Other Countries Handle Economic Security?
8. Why Should the US Adopt a Basic Income Guarantee?
9. Is a Basic Income Guarantee Moral?
10. Why Should I Work to Support Welfare Chiselers?
11. Why Not Guarantee Everyone a Job?
12. Why Not Try Other Programs?
13. Can the US Afford a Basic Income Guarantee?
14. Will a Basic Income Guarantee Work?
15. Has the Basic Income Guarantee Ever Been Tested?
16. What About the Work Ethic?
17. What Will Life Be Like Under a Basic Income Guarantee?
18. Will a Basic Income Guarantee Threaten Democracy?
19. How Is a Basic Income Guarantee Administered?
20. What's Happening with BIG Around the World?
21. Can America be Convinced?
22. Realistically, What Are the Chances for a BIG in the US?

224 pages, Paperback

First published July 3, 2012

Reviews

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is written like a sermon. The mad preacher thunders: 'we' have failed. A good idea turned into a political carrot.