On December 11, anti-poverty activist and scholar Jason Burke Murphy appeared on the popular David Pakman Show to...
UNITED STATES: Jason Murphy talks about basic income on the David Pakman Show
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Book review of “The War on Normal People”
The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future By...
Andrew Yang’s Main Goal: Abolish Poverty and Make the Wealthy Pay For It – A Reaction to Chapo Trap House
By Jason Burke Murphy Andrew Yang's interview with Virgil Texas on the podcast Chapo Trap House helps to answer a lot...
United States: Unstoppable Andrew Yang carries basic income to the national debate stage
All ten candidates at the Democratic Deabte for the United States Presidential elections. “It is not left, it...
Europe: An EU citizens initiative for a Carbon Fee & Dividend is collecting signatures
An European Citizen’s Initiative on the application of a carbon tax-citizen’s dividend scheme has been accepted by the...
United States: Andrew Yang hits the stage at CNN Presidential Town Hall
Andrew Yang, the only Democrat presidential candidate to the US elections in 2020 announcing a basic income policy in...
Interview: Presidential campaign brings ‘new crowds’ to basic income
Yang took time out of one of his presidential campaign rallies and fundraisers to speak with BI News. Yang expressed hope that supporters of basic income would get behind his campaign early. Andrew Yang was then, and still is as of this writing, the only announced candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination.
President Obama Receives BIEN Letter Through Senator Suplicy (from 2011)
This essay was originally published on Basic Income News in May 2011. In March 2011, Brazilian Senator (and...
CANADA: Symposium on Dauphin Mincome Experiment Held at University of Manitoba
By Jason Burke Murphy On October 3rd, the Social Work Department at the University of Manitoba held a Symposium...
Germany: Interview with German Parliamentary Candidate Felix Coeln
By Jason Burke Murphy US Basic Income Guarantee Network Coming up on September 24th, Germany will be holding national...
How Many Couch Potatoes Can You Live With?
Most people with a basic income will live a lot like they do now. They will have a more stable income. They will worry less about many of their friends and family. This cuts into the number of people who would choose the couch.
Study of Iran’s basic income shows it did not harm employment
An economic study of Iran’s Basic Income, which was implemented to make it easier to phase out expensive (and ecologically destructive) fuel subsidies, shows that there have been no negative effects on employment.
Basic Income as All-inclusive Democratic Subsidy
Freedom should not be understood as a mere absence of intervention or interference. On the contrary, freedom should be understand as independence over against any arbitrary authority.
VIDEO: David Pakman Show “Finland’s ‘Basic Income’ Test is Set Up to Fail”
The David Pakman Show’s latest video on basic income (published on September 1) critiques the design for the Finnish basic income experiment, which Pakman says is “set up to fail” and a “bogus way” to test basic income.
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY: Basic Income presentation at Degrowth Week (Sep 2)
The 5th International Degrowth Conference will take place in Budapest from August 30 to September 3, alongside a new “Degrowth Week”. As part of Degrowth Week, Lina Raquel Marinho and André Barata Nascimento will lead a presentation on unconditional basic income.
US: Political Action Committee for Basic Income forms
Founded in June 2016, and currently in its preliminary organizational phase, National Campaign for Basic Income (NCBI) is a Political Action Committee supporting basic income policy initiatives at the local, state, and national level.
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OPINION: Notes of Discussions in the North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress of 2015
(This article originally appeared on Medium) Between the 26th of February and the 1st of March, 2015, and only with...
UNITED STATES: The Fourteenth Annual North America Basic Income Guarantee Congress
There is a community of Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) supporters in the United States. To prove it, a small...
Brooklyn, NY: Report from the meeting to create a political movement for basic income
Thirty-one people signed the attendance sheet at the first meeting of group of people attempting to start a political...