1. Basic Income Guarantee: The Right to Economic Security by Allan Sheahen argues that there is a moral obligation to provide everyone with a decent level of living. Your right to be--your right to simple existence--is not something for others to grant or withhold as an economic carrot, or to...

A Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) is the unconditional government-ensured guarantee that all citizens will have enough income to meet their basic needs without a work requirement. Significant questions include: Why should we adopt a BIG? Can the U.S. afford it? Why don't the current welfare...

Introduction -- Effective control self-ownership: freedom as the power to say no -- Forty acres and a mule? Implications of respecting personal independence -- The importance of independence I: framing the issue -- The importance of independence II: freedom and integrity -- The importance of...