Allan Sheahen

Allan Sheahen is the author of Basic Income Guarantee: Your Right To Economic Security. In 2005, Sheahen coauthored, with Karl Widerquist, The Tax Cut for the Rest of Us Act, the first true guaranteed income bill ever introduced in the U.S. Congress.

Sheahen is committee member of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network (USBIG) and has spoken at each of its annual conferences since 2002. He is also a member of the International Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) and has presented papers at several of its biennial conferences. Sheahen has volunteered in the USA’s VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) program in Los Angeles, and he is the domestic group leader in the San Fernando Valley of RESULTS, a national non-profit organization working to end hunger and poverty at home and abroad.