Penny U at Town Hall: Guaranteed Minimum Income?

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Guaranteed Minimum Income?

Gwen Demombynes, who participated in our first Penny U on October 6th, shared this video produced by PBS News Hour on a Swiss proposal guaranteed minimum income.

If you prefer reading the transcript of the video, or want to find out more information, you can view that here. (link)

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About Penny U at Town Hall

Imagining Tomorrow’s Work

Conversations about the nature and future of work

How are the concepts of jobs and work changing or being redefined? What does our own experience tell us? What does this mean for the future?

Penny U conversations are jumpstarted by ideas from speakers on Town Hall’s stages. We aim to tie big ideas to daily lives. Since each person brings valuable knowledge and experience, Penny U is designed to engage everyone in the room: we lead with questions not answers, the set up is informal, and conversations happen both in small groups and all together. Like early Penny universities, we aim to mix ages, fields, incomes, cultures for face-to-face conversation about things that matter, in the commons that is Town Hall.

Penny U borrows its name from 18th century London coffeehouses called “Penny Universities.” For the price of a penny people got coffee, pamphlets, news, gossip, and lively conversations on politics and science, literature and poetry, commerce and religion. The low cost led to a mingling of people from all walks of life – poor with rich. Penny universities became safe havens for challenging ideas and civil debate.