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Fundraising. 200+ Tools for Surviving the Economic Crisis. With Wall Street's recent decline and the economy in such an uncertain place, many people are fearful of losing their jobs and lifelong investments.

200+ Tools for Surviving the Economic Crisis

There are countless simple online services and tools dedicated to helping you take control of these elements. We've put together a list of over 200 to help you do everything from manage your personal and professional finances to find a job in your given field, get discounts at local and online stores, and much more. Whether you live here in the United States or abroad, we hope these will help. Which online services are you relying on to help you weather this storm? Budgeting Business Accounting GoBootstrap.com - Helps you fill out forms, remember to pay estimated taxes, get the most deductions possible, generate graphs to see how your business is doing and more. LessAccounting.com - Attempts to be a more streamlined, less labor intensive accounting system for small businesses in an attempt to free up more of your time. Personal Accounting Jobs.

The Libertarian Case for a Basic Income. Guaranteeing a minimum income to the poor is better than our current system of welfare, Zwolinski argues.

The Libertarian Case for a Basic Income

And it can be justified by libertarian principles. This morning, I did a short interview with the Cato Institute about the libertarian case for a Basic Income Guarantee. The immediate stimulus for the conversation was the recent Swiss proposal to pay each and every and every citizen 2,500 francs (about 2,800 USD) per month. But conversation quickly turned to the question of whether some form of basic income proposal might be compatible with libertarianism. Some of my colleagues at Bleeding Heart Libertarians have certainly expressed enthusiasm for it in the past.

Of course, as with any policy proposal, the details matter a lot. Still skeptical? 1) A Basic Income Guarantee would be much better than the current welfare state. Current federal social welfare programs in the United States are an expensive, complicated mess. Wouldn’t it be better just to write the poor a check? 5 Reasons to Consider a No-Strings-Attached, Basic Income for All Americans.

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5 Reasons to Consider a No-Strings-Attached, Basic Income for All Americans

Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. What if you could receive a guaranteed basic yearly income with no strings attached? Sounds like a far-fetched idea, right? Half of all Canadians want it. The idea is not new: In his final book, Martin Luther King Jr. suggested that guaranteeing people money without requiring them to do anything in exchange was a good way for Americans to share in prosperity. Advocates say it’s an idea whose time has finally come. 1. Matt Bruenig calculated that by giving everybody a mere $3,000 a year, including children (who would receive the money through their parents), we could potentially cut poverty in half.

In the 1970s, the small Canadian town of Dauphin ran an experiment through a social policy called “ Mincome.” 2.

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