It is certainly ironic that our country, which so proudly champions the cause of individual freedom and civil liberty around the world, does not grant our citizenry a basic right granted by all of these other countries.
He said he would donate half of the $1.4 million prize money to social causes, including a campaign to establish a basic income grant for all South African citizens to alleviate poverty.
While about 30percentt of the $600 million budget at I.B.M. Research is a basic corporate grant to support long-range work like Dr. Eigler's, the remainder comes directly from other units within the company or from corporate matching grants linked to those units' investments.
The next day at school, Principal Skinner informs Lisa that her test grade has brought Springfield Elementary's GPA up to the State's minimum standard, and they now qualify for a basic assistance grant.
Although the details vary, the contracts at their most basic grant entrepreneurs the right to be a company's sole representative in a given area, at least for a period of time.
There is no reason why the basic grant we have imagined must be of equivalent value to a full social minimum.
They said she failed to do crucial administrative chores, like paying for health insurance for the staff and filing paperwork required by the city to get the program's basic grant renewed.
Last year, the Assembly's Social Services Committee held hearings on the adequacy of the basic grant and concluded that cost-of-living increases had "reduced the real value of the welfare grant, making it nearly impossible for families to meet even their most basic needs," according to its report.
The trade unions have been pressing for a basic income-support grant of just 100 Namibian dollars.
A report published by the Royal Society of Arts in December floated the idea of a "basic rental income" granted to everyone who rents rather than owns a property, and with the additional costs incurred by central government paid for through a land value tax.
