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On Worcester State University Week: What can we learn from universal basic income pilot programs? Bryant Sculos, visiting assistant professor of political science, discusses their effect. Dr Bryant William Sculos is a transdisciplinary international political theorist and currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Dept. of History and Political Science at Worcester State University. He is the co-editor (with Prof. Mary Caputi) of, and contributing author to, Teaching Marx &amp; Critical Theory in the 21st Century (Studies in Critical Social Sciences: Brill 2019/Haymarket 2020). Dr. Sculos is also the Politics of Culture section editor for the open-access journal Class, Race and Corporate Power and the founding curator and editor of LeftHooked, published monthly with the Hampton Institute. He is the author of “Dialectical Ends and Beginnings: Why Barbarism at the End of Capitalism Means Barbarism Beyond Capitalism” in Postcapitalist Futures: Political Economy Beyond Crisis and Hope (co-edited by Drs. Adam Fishwick and Nicholas Kiersey, with Pluto Press) and of the forthcoming book The Dialectics of Global Justice: From Liberal to Postcapitalist Cosmopolitanism (with SUNY Press). Learning From Basic Income Pilots https://academicminute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/08-12-21-Worcester-State-Learning-from-Basic-Income-Pilots.mp3  Although universal basic income (or UBI) is not a new idea, recent political campaigns have reenergized interest in it. UBI is a broad category of policy proposals that involve sending direct payments set at or near a living-wage to all people regardless of demonstrated need. A group of mayors around the US are developing guaranteed income programs for their communities inspired by the idea of UBI, at a time when people are struggling at historic levels. That said, many of the local pilot programs fall short of the ideal of UBI. Many are not universal, and most do not provide a living wage. However, even these experiments can still achieve important goals, including providing data that can be utilized to challenge many of the negative myths about UBI while also benefitting the participants. Perhaps without exception, all UBI experiments up to this point show that providing direct payments to people improve their lives and benefit the economy. At the same time, understanding how the local experiments diverge from UBI can illuminate the ways that these pilots can lay the foundation for progress towards a more far-reaching UBI system. In order to be maximally valuable in relation to that goal, local guaranteed income projects need to do at least three key things: involve more people, provide larger sums of money to the participants, and they need to provide the income for longer periods of time. Research shows, that while more expansive UBI programs, which are best funded by increasing taxes on the wealthy, are more controversial, the more expansive a UBI program is the more likely it is that the beneficiaries will make longer-term changes to their lives, which include going back to school and spending more time with their families and in their communities. An expansive UBI can even begin to change how people think about their relationship to work and their views on our capitalist economic system that regularly leaves so many behind.

On <a href="http://worcester.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Worcester State University</a> Week: What can we learn from universal basic income pilot programs? <a href="https://www.worcester.edu/Faculty-Profiles/History-and-Political-Science/Bryant-William-Sculos/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bryant Sculos</a>, visiting assistant professor of political science, discusses their effect. Dr Bryant William Sculos is a transdisciplinary international political theorist and currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Dept. of History and Political Science at Worcester State University. He is the co-editor (with Prof. Mary Caputi) of, and contributing author to, Teaching Marx &amp; Critical Theory in the 21st Century (Studies in Critical Social Sciences: Brill 2019/Haymarket 2020). Dr. Sculos is also the Politics of Culture section editor for the open-access journal Class, Race and Corporate Power and the founding curator and editor of LeftHooked, published monthly with the Hampton Institute. He is the author of “Dialectical Ends and Beginnings: Why Barbarism at the End of Capitalism Means Barbarism Beyond Capitalism” in Postcapitalist Futures: Political Economy Beyond Crisis and Hope (co-edited by Drs. Adam Fishwick and Nicholas Kiersey, with Pluto Press) and of the forthcoming book The Dialectics of Global Justice: From Liberal to Postcapitalist Cosmopolitanism (with SUNY Press). <h2>Learning From Basic Income Pilots</h2> <a href="https://academicminute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/08-12-21-Worcester-State-Learning-from-Basic-Income-Pilots.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://academicminute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/08-12-21-Worcester-State-Learning-from-Basic-Income-Pilots.mp3</a> <h2></h2> Although universal basic income (or UBI) is not a new idea, recent political campaigns have reenergized interest in it. UBI is a broad category of policy proposals that involve sending direct payments set at or near a living-wage to all people regardless of demonstrated need. A group of mayors around the US are developing guaranteed income programs for their communities inspired by the idea of UBI, at a time when people are struggling at historic levels. That said, many of the local pilot programs fall short of the ideal of UBI. Many are not universal, and most do not provide a living wage. However, even these experiments can still achieve important goals, including providing data that can be utilized to challenge many of the negative myths about UBI while also benefitting the participants. Perhaps without exception, all UBI experiments up to this point show that providing direct payments to people improve their lives and benefit the economy. At the same time, understanding how the local experiments diverge from UBI can illuminate the ways that these pilots can lay the foundation for progress towards a more far-reaching UBI system. In order to be maximally valuable in relation to that goal, local guaranteed income projects need to do at least three key things: involve more people, provide larger sums of money to the participants, and they need to provide the income for longer periods of time. Research shows, that while more expansive UBI programs, which are best funded by increasing taxes on the wealthy, are more controversial, the more expansive a UBI program is the more likely it is that the beneficiaries will make longer-term changes to their lives, which include going back to school and spending more time with their families and in their communities. An expansive UBI can even begin to change how people think about their relationship to work and their views on our capitalist economic system that regularly leaves so many behind.

Bryant Sculos, Worcester State University – Learning From Basic Income Pilots

Today we chat with Bryant Sculos about his recent article entitled “Against Trumpeachment: The Case for a Strategic Alternative,” where we discuss the possibility of a Trump impeachment and the larger politics surrounding it.

Today we chat with Bryant Sculos about his recent article entitled “Against Trumpeachment: The Case for a Strategic Alternative,” where we discuss the possibility of a Trump impeachment and the larger politics surrounding it.

Episode #83: Trumpeachment With Bryant Sculos

Welcome to another episode of Fully Automated! This week we are starting a short series of podcasts on the place of Marxism in In- ternational Relations. Next episode, we’ll be joined by Sebastian Sclofsky and Kevin Funk, who are going to be discussing a piece they have in the latest issue of International Studies Perspectives, ‘The Specter That Haunts Political Science: The Neglect and Misreading of Marx in International Relations and Comparative Politics’. So, look out for that episode, coming in about a week’s time. Its a great interview, and I am really looking forward to posting it for you.Meanwhile, on this episode, we are joined by Bryant Sculos, an adjunct professor at Florida International University (FIU), to discuss an 2015 piece he co-authored with Sean Walsh, of Capital University, entitled “Marx in Miami: Reflections on Teaching and the Confrontation with Ideology,” which appeared in the journal Class, Race and Corporate Power. In this interview we talk about the particular challenges of teaching Marxism in a city like Miami, with its high population of Cuban immigrants. You’ll hear Bryant discuss some of the unique challenges he encounters in the classroom, and some of the pedagogical approaches that he and his co-author have developed, as they seek to overcome them. Marx, of course, was one of the great thinkers of the historical situatedness of human consciousness. And, regardless of your take on his wider political program, the value of his approach to questions of human nature and political power, cannot be gainsaid.Towards the end of the interview, we’ll also ask Bryant about his recent run-in with the far-right media, who’ve picked up on a recent piece of his, on the Disney movie Beauty and the Beast, which Bryant argues is exemplary of toxic capitalist masculinity ... we’ll ask him why he refused to go on television and defend the piece.

Welcome to another episode of Fully Automated! This week we are starting a short series of podcasts on the place of Marxism in In- ternational Relations. Next episode, we’ll be joined by Sebastian Sclofsky and Kevin Funk, who are going to be discussing a piece they have in the latest issue of International Studies Perspectives, ‘The Specter That Haunts Political Science: The Neglect and Misreading of Marx in International Relations and Comparative Politics’. So, look out for that episode, coming in about a week’s time. Its a great interview, and I am really looking forward to posting it for you. Meanwhile, on this episode, we are joined by Bryant Sculos, an adjunct professor at Florida International University (FIU), to discuss an 2015 piece he co-authored with Sean Walsh, of Capital University, entitled “Marx in Miami: Reflections on Teaching and the Confrontation with Ideology,” which appeared in the journal Class, Race and Corporate Power. In this interview we talk about the particular challenges of teaching Marxism in a city like Miami, with its high population of Cuban immigrants. You’ll hear Bryant discuss some of the unique challenges he encounters in the classroom, and some of the pedagogical approaches that he and his co-author have developed, as they seek to overcome them. Marx, of course, was one of the great thinkers of the historical situatedness of human consciousness. And, regardless of your take on his wider political program, the value of his approach to questions of human nature and political power, cannot be gainsaid. Towards the end of the interview, we’ll also ask Bryant about his recent run-in with the far-right media, who’ve picked up on a recent piece of his, on the Disney movie Beauty and the Beast, which Bryant argues is exemplary of toxic capitalist masculinity ... we’ll ask him why he refused to go on television and defend the piece.

Episode 9: Bryant Sculos, on “Marx in Miami”