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 People’s Pledge: Building Guaranteed Income as Communities’ Vision for Freedom in California
By: Nika Soon-Shiong, Founder and Executive Director, Fund for Guaranteed Income Less than an hour’s drive from the pristine homes of Beverly Hills, the tree-lined campuses of UCLA, and the booming heart of the entertainment industry, Compton faces an economic crisis....
Geoff Crocker “The Macroeconomics of Basic Income and Sovereign Money”
Geoff Crocker has reframed his argument for UBI in the context of re-thinking income and money in economic theory at the Cambridge Trust for New Economic Thinking conference on Policies to Tackle the Cost of Living Crisis, March 8, 2023. To see the slides of this...
Guy Standing article in support of Catalonia UBI Pilot
Guy Standing, BIEN co-founder and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Catalan UBI pilot, has published an article in support of that pilot. Read the article in Spanish here and English here.
Panel on Basic Income at 13TH BRAGA MEETINGS ON ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
"This panel invites contributors to elaborate discussions concerning the Basic Income theory and its connection with problematics in the fields of Ethics, Politics, Sociology, and Economics. There are central issues for this panel, which aim for multidisciplinary...
Catalan Basic Income Pilot Scientific Committee Open Letter
The photo above is of President Aragonès (ERC) next to Salvador Illa (PSC) after ratifying the agreement on the Catalan anual budget. (C) Joan Mateu Parra. The Catalan Basic Income Pilot project, which plans to conduct one of the largest basic income experiments...
FRIBIS Summer School 2023 – Microsimulation and Social Welfare Maximization
"The workshop aims at offering young researchers (MSc, PhD) or more advanced scientists yet beginners in static modelling a rare and extensive introduction to the development of static microsimulation models and welfare analysis. The whole process, from research...
Video: Philippe van Parijs: A world in crisis: boost or damper for basic income?
Some argue that global warming, the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine strengthen the case in favour of the introduction of an unconditional basic income. Others argue instead that they shatter the prospect of introducing it in the foreseeable future. Who is right?...
More than 12,000 Californians are getting cash from guaranteed income experiments
Illustration above by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters; iStock "State and local governments, and some private funders, are launching dozens of pilot projects making direct, monthly payments to low-income residents to help meet basic needs. Researchers will study what...
Sign a Manifesto in support of the Catalonia UBI Pilot
The photo above is ofPresident Aragonès (ERC) next to Salvador Illa (PSC) after ratifying the agreement on the Catalan anual budget. (C) Joan Mateu Parra. The Spanish UBI Network has elaborated a short manifesto to support the Catalan UBI Pilot plan –which...