Kim Lag Jung from Gyeonggi Province was interviewed about the South Korean Youth dividend program. The interview took place at the 2019 Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Congress in India.
The interview covered the dividend and its reported benefit for local youth, local business owners and how it has affected the national conversation about basic income and whether it could be expanded to include more ages.
Since 2016, 3,500 South Korean youth have received the equivalent of 1,000,000￦ (US$872) in local currency that can be used at local small businesses. The youth dividend started in Seongnam city, but from 2019 it was expanded to 150,000 youth across Gyeonggi province with 31 cities.
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“I don’t think there’s anything controversial about trying to make parliament more inclusive,” Fatima Joji says.
The Nigerian-Scot, from Westhill, Aberdeenshire, is excited about her position topping the SNP’s north-east regional list for the Scottish Parliament elections in May.
But she has spoken out against those who “seem to think that I have been somehow parachuted into what they see as being a gravy train position simply because I am a BAME woman”.
It comes after the party agreed a new mechanism of putting either BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) or disabled candidates on the top of the eight SNP regional lists.
If you lived in Alaska, you’d probably be looking forward to your annual check from the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD). The money, mostly from oil-production revenues, has been paid to qualified residents of the state since 1982. The 2019 PFD ($1,600) was distributed to more than 85% of the 731,500 people living in Alaska.
Beyond the state last year millions of Americans got a taste of the Alaska experience through virus relief checks sent out by the federal government. In April 2020, 127.5 million eligible adults (about 38% of the U.S. population) received $1,200 as part of the $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
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