In a recent interview, Swiss entrepreneur and activist Daniel Häni contends that “the unconditional basic income is an initiative against laziness.” Häni is well known in the basic income as the co-founder the co-founder of Switzerland’s popular initiative for an...
SUMMARY: In 2016, Switzerland is going to vote on a popular initiative that asks for the introduction of an unconditional Basic Income. Daniel Häni, one of the promoters of the initiative, wrote this book with Philip Kovce in order to gather support for the...
On the 17th of October, Estonian TV of Tallinn (Tallinna TV), which houses about 400.000 people, shows the film "Basic Income - a Cultural Impulse". Tallinna TV, Screening of "Basic Income - a Cultural Impulse", Tallinna TV, October 17 2014
[Mathieu Ferry] Language: French Daniel Häni and Enno Schmidt, “Basic income [Le revenu de base]”, Internet Archive, 2010.
[Michael Millar] SUMMARY: Many people are dissatisfied with their jobs. Students are pressured into picking a career. Instead of improving quality of life, we have an 'elbow society', one that prioritises economic growth, competition and quantity. As this happens,...
Dorothee Schulte-Basta spoke with Daniel Häni, one of the activists on the inititiative for Basic Income in Switzerland
by Robin Ketelaars HistoryMatthias Dilthey called for a day of basic income in 2006, which unfortunately received little support at the time.* The first week of the basic income was held in 2008 and was designed as a sub-project of the EU-funded “Basic Income on the...
Rebecca Panian The Swiss village of Rheinau is being targeted for a basic income experiment. The idea is being promoted and produced by the Dorf Testet Zukunft organization (Village of the Future Test). It started in 2016, through a popular initiative, and it...
In a 2016 vote regarding a Basic Income initiative in Switzerland (rejected by 76% of the people), two districts in Zurich voted in favor of the initiative. In November of 2017, the Zurich parliament accepted a parliamentary postulate that proposes the launch of a...
This essay is reprinted from OpenDemocracy, 18 October 2017 Support for unconditional basic income (UBI) has grown so rapidly over the past few years that some might think the idea appeared out of nowhere. In fact, activists have been floating the plan — and other...
Bündnis Grundeinkommen gathering at Brandenburg gate. Credit to: Enno Schmidt and Bündnis Grundeinkommen The Bündnis Grundeinkommen, Germany’s political party campaigning on the single issue of introducing a basic income in the country, has held an open air...
The tiny coffee shop also houses a basic income library and serves as a center of discussion.
A new documentary on basic income — Free Lunch Society by Austrian director Christian Tod — premiered in Copenhagen’s Bremen Theatre on March 20, 2017, to a crowd numbering in the hundreds.
Despite being formally defeated, the Swiss initiative for basic income should be regarded as a giant step in the now unstoppable march towards basic income.
The preliminary polls are in for all Cantons (states) in Switzerland. As many already know, the referendum did not pass, with only about 23% of voters in favor of it. From the website for the Swiss Federal Council %-Yes Vote for Basic Income ; Average: 23.1 % These...
On June 5th, the people of Switzerland will go to the polls to vote on a referendum to enact a basic income -- marking the first time that a basic income has been submitted to the popular vote. Although the basic income initiative received little support in...
Daniel Häni. Credit to: The Establishment. Within the past two months, the well-known German magazine Der Spiegel has published two comprehensive articles about Basic Income. The December 25th edition of Der Spiegel contains an article that discusses models of Basic...
Human Rights Day is celebrated across the world every year on December 10. The date was chosen to honor the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption and proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948. Human dignity is inviolable and...
[Michael Millar] A programme discussing Basic Income, with Götz Werner, DM drugstore founder, Daniel Häni, initiator of the Swiss Basic Income referendum, Dr. Verena Di Pasquale, The 2nd Chairman of the DGB Bavaria, Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Ruckriegel, economist and...
[by Karsten Lieberkind] In this interview (in Swedish), Daniela Marquardt speaks with Daniel Häni who runs a very successful café in Basel, Switzerland, in what was previously a major bank. He is also one of the founders of the Swiss Basic Income movement. This...