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Alan Krueger

On March 7, 2009, he was nominated by President Barack Obama to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy.[1] In October 2010, he announced his resignation from the Treasury Department, to return to Princeton University.

On August 29, 2011, he was nominated by Obama to be chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers,[3][4] and on November 3, 2011, the Senate unanimously confirmed his nomination.[5]

Rahm Emmanuel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel

In October 2010, Emanuel resigned as chief of staff to run as a candidate in Chicago's 2011 mayoral election.

So both Rahm and Kruegar left in Oct 2010

https://basicincome.org/news/2016/07/us-former-presidential-adviser-alan-krueger-joins-basic-income-research-team/

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US: Former Presidential adviser Alan Krueger joins basic income research team

July 11, 2016 Kate McFarland News, News & Events

On Tuesday, July 5, Alan Krueger — the former Chair of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers — announced in a Tweet that he would be joining the research team at GiveDirectly, assisting the charity organization as it designs and implements a long-term, large-scale basic income pilot in Kenya.

GiveDirectly reported this announcement in its blog on July 7.

An interesting coincidence is that GiveDirectly’s announcement of Krueger’s involvement came on the same day that Jason Furman, Krueger’s successor as adviser to the President, spoke against universal basic income at a workshop on automation co-sponsored by the White House.

Krueger is currently Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where he researches such topics as subjective well-being and trends in contingent and freelance work.

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https://basicincome.org/news/2016/04/givedirectly-trial-kenya/

WORLD: The charity GiveDirectly will start a major basic income trial in Kenya

April 15, 2016 Karl Widerquist News, News & Events

GiveDirectly, a charity which has used direct cash distribution in one-time, lump-sum payments to fight poverty in Africa, announced it will launch a full basic income trial. The project will involved at least 30 million dollars and academic support from leading researchers at the MIT. The charity is relying on donations from all around the world. The trail will fully adopt the basic income model by making regular cash payments to every resident in several villages in Kenya.

GiveDirectly’s appeal for support it below:

Dear friends,

We’re announcing something new. Something that’s never been done before.

GiveDirectly is launching a universal basic income trial — this year, we’ll begin paying everyone in multiple Kenyan villages a regular income that’s enough to meet their most basic needs, and keep doing so for more than ten years.

People have long debated whether we should provide a guaranteed minimum floor for everyone (a “basic income”), and what would happen if we did. Would it spur risk-taking and creativity, or would people just stop working? Would it drive growth or reduce it? Would people spend more time on entrepreneurship, or on education and parenting? With the idea being hotly debated around the world, it’s time we found out.

We’re teaming up with leading researcher Abhijit Banerjee from MIT and have calculated that we can run and study a real trial for $30 million, and we’re willing to match the first $10 million donated.

To make this happen, join us and contribute a small amount to help the world find out if a guaranteed basic income could be the tool that ends poverty.

Together, in the last five years, we’ve raised $100 million, helped shift a worldwide policy discussion, and served over 150,000 individuals based on the proven principle that giving poor people cash works. Now it’s time for us to take the next step. It’s because of you that we’ve made it this far, so we hope you’ll join us for this newest project.

Visit our website to learn more or to contribute to the project.

If you do decide to give to this trial, at a minimum your money will help shift the life trajectories of thousands of low-income households. At best, it will change how the world thinks about ending poverty.

All the best,

Ian Bassin

Chief Operating Officer – Domestic

You can read more about GiveDirectly’s new basic income project at the following links:

Michael Faye and Paul Niehaus, “What If We Just Gave Poor People a Basic Income for Life? That’s What We’re About to Test.” Slate, April 14, 2016

GiveDirectly.org, “Send money directly to the extreme poor: Basic Income.” GiveDirectly.org. 2016

Berk Ozler, “GiveDirectly just announced a basic income grant experiment. Here is how to make it better.” The World Bank. 04/15/2016

Dylan Matthews, “A charity’s radical experiment: giving 6,000 Kenyans enough money to escape poverty for a decade.” Vox, April 15, 2016

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Official account of Alan Krueger, author of Rockonomics, administered by CPRHEcon

Alan Kruegar has not tweeted since Jan 29th (it was a retweet) and it looks like he was a pretty regular tweeter

hmmm……

Alan Krueger / Why is Universal Basic Income So Controversial? - Lecture

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

5:30 pm

Cubberley Auditorium

Sponsored by:

McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, Basic Income Lab

This lecture will discuss a form of unconditional cash transfers often called "universal basic income" (UBI). UBI can be thought of as a form of "negative income tax," often with a zero tax rate. Evidence on the incentive effects of UBI in many contexts will be presented. The idea of a negative income tax was supported by a wide range of economists because of its efficiency properties — including James Tobin and Milton Friedman — which makes it surprising that UBI has been so controversial. This lecture will try to resolve this controversy by introducing the notion of "Universal Basic Opportunity."

ALAN KRUEGER is the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and has done extensive research on income distribution, social insurance, labor market regulation and labor demand. His latest book, “Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us About Economics and Life,” will be published in June. He served as Chairman of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, and joined the Give Directly research team in 2016.

Krueger is also the author of "What Makes A Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism" and "Education Matters: A Selection of Essays on Education, co-author of “Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage," and co-author of "Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies?"

In addition to his service in the Obama administration, Krueger was Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (2009-10), and served as Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor (1994-95).

There will be a Wesson Discussion Seminar on Thursday, March 14, at 10 a.m., which is intended as a response to this lecture. Discussion commentators are James Ferguson (Stanford University), Pascaline Dupas (Stanford University) and Stacia Martin-West (University of Tennessee).

When:

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Where:

Cubberley Auditorium

Admission:

Free and open to the public.

If anyone with disabilities needs accommodations, feel free to contact us at the email below.

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This was at Stanford University