A Basic Income is a periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all on an individual basis, without means-test or work requirement.
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The long march to Basic Income begins with a single step – The unusual story of Kowiti-A
Villagers gathered to celebrate their basic income in the local church building By: Billy Juma Munda, Evans Ododa, Lena Stark Kowiti-A is a small village in Kisumu County in Kenya. It is twenty-three kilometres away from Kisumu town and has a population of 782 people...
International Basic Income Week capped with live & online Basic Income Marches
Saturday 25 September sees the penultimate day of the 14th International Basic Income Week 'Basic Income: Forward to a Better World' with Basic Income Marches in many cities. Although concentrated in the US and Europe, events will also be held in Jakarta, Indonesia...
Why UBI should go global
New research from World Basic Income finds that more than half of the world’s people live in countries where UBI could reach only $5 to $18 per person per month on average, as a result of global inequality and national income constraints. To support UBI activism in...
Oxford Union votes against introducing UBI
On 29th April 2021 the prestigious Oxford Union Society hosted a panel of students, activists, politicians and scholars to debate the motion ‘This House Would Introduce a Universal Basic Income’. The debate began with the majority (68%) voting in favour of introducing...
South Korea: The report on Youth Basic Income in Gyeonggi Province
Gyeonggi Province, Republic of Korea, has been implementing the Youth Basic Income (YBI) programme since April 1, 2019. The English edition of the report on the project was published in July and can be accessed here. The following is a short introduction by Ikjin Yu,...
Four Chinese students have been working with BIEN for three months
From the 24th May to the 24th August 2021 four Chinese students undertook internships with BIEN. They attended a five day introductory course about Basic Income and the global Basic Income debate, translated pages and posts on the BIEN website into Chinese, summarised...
Taiwan holds first online basic income summit
After over a year of avoiding significant local COVID outbreaks, Taiwan experienced a scare in May with hundreds of cases emerging. This brought the idea of universal cash payments to the forefront of Taiwan’s political debate as millions of jobs were destabilized...
A comprehensive history of Basic Income
A comprehensive history of Basic Income is to be published this month. The publisher says this about the book: Presenting a truly comprehensive history of Basic Income, Malcolm Torry explores the evolution of the concept of a regular unconditional income for...
The Essential Reason I Support UBI
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This article is a draft of the first chapter of the book I'm working on: Universal Basic Income: Essential Knowledge. It can also be thought of as a reply to Bitch Bastardly's guest article from last week. Comments welcome: Karl@widerquist.com....