Basic Income Hamilton

Happening TODAY @ NOON! Join us for a conversation about women and basic income. There's still time to register: http://bit.ly/2IFI7a8 ~ All welcome! ~

one more day to sign up for the Basic Income Hamilton free webinar this Thursday, December 10 at 12 noon. www.BasicIncomeHamilton.ca

Are you coming to our upcoming noon hour webinar on December 10? All are welcome to join us for a discussion on Women + Work and the Case for Basic Income. Registration information is below. See you there!

"SEWA started its experimentation with a small study in Delhi. We substituted rations for poor families with cash put into bank accounts in the name of the el...dest woman. We found that the women managed the cash well, choosing whatever their family needed. A group of women went together to buy food from the wholesale markets. They were not only able to afford better quality grain than usual, but were also able to add pulses, milk and eggs to their diet. Their nutrition improved. The next two experiments were in rural Madhya Pradesh and involved over 11,000 individuals. About half received the basic income while the others made up the control group. Both women and men received a monthly income directly in their accounts. The children’s cash was paid to their mothers. This basic income was unconditional, individual, and universal within a single village. Not only did women benefit more in welfare, partially redressing deeply ingrained inequities, but women and men in lower-caste and tribal households tended to gain most. For many families, their basic income was their way out of exploitative debt. In the tribal village covered by the pilots, 30% of women who received the basic income switched from wage labour to own account work like farming and livestock, and 73% reduced their debt burdens."" Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction Social Planning and Research Council of Hamilton (SPRC) Hamilton Community Foundation Ontario Basic Income Network - OBIN Ontario Basic Income Network - OBIN Hamilton Chamber of Commerce

Join us on Dec. 10 for the 1st in a FREE online lunchtime series on #basicincome. Our panel will have a conversation about women, work & the case for basic income. Register here: bit.ly/2IFI7a8 (link in bio) Presented in partnership w/ @HamiltonPoverty @HamCommFdn @OBINbasicincome @SPRCHamOnt See you there #hamont