With endorsement from 70 of its affiliates and partner organizations from over 30 countries, BIEN has submitted the...
Can Universal Basic Income Transform China’s Fight Against Poverty?
Research presented at the 2024 BIEN Congress explores China's possible shift from existing social assistance programs...
Homeless people to be given cash in first major UK trial to reduce poverty
"Researchers are conducting the UK’s first major scientific trials to establish whether giving homeless people cash is...
Canada’s National Advisory Council on Poverty has recommended basic income
Photo by Jason Hafso via Unsplash In chapter 5 of its annual report, Canada’s National Advisory Council on Poverty...
The burnout economy: poverty and mental health: Summary report
Social protection schemes should be implemented tothe fullest extent possible, without excessive targeting...
From Poverty to Hedge Fund Manager to Basic Income Advocate
Darryl Finkton, Jr. is a hedge fund manager turned community organizer. Raised in a poor black family in Indianapolis,...
New Report on Tackling Poverty in the UK Published by Basic Income Conversation
The Basic Income Conversation is an initiative, powered by Compass, to promote the idea of a universal basic income in...
World Bank recommends GMI to reduce the poverty rate in Russia
In Russia, as in many other countries, social benefits do not always reach those who need them. The problem has...
Why UBI is the right solution to poverty in America
The following is my address, "The Power to Say No and American Social Policy," to a conference entitled, "Poverty in...
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...
Canada: National Inquiry into violence against indigenous women reveals the necessity to eliminate poverty in the country
On the right: Anna Fowler (director of health & social development); on the left: Qajaq Robinson (lawyer,...
A Critical Poverty Eradication Experiment in Kenya
GiveDirectly formed a $30 million fund to benefit 20,000 Kenyans in the most important and thorough study about UBI in history
Combining UBI and a job offer scheme to end poverty
A public sector job offer at minimum wage, combined with UBI of could raise all households above poverty when combined with improved disability and housing benefits.
UK: The current welfare state is reaching its limits, as evidence on inequality and poverty in the UK is surfaced
Philip Alston. Picture credit to: BBC News Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights,...
Canada: Canada’s Federal Government is assembling a National Advisory Council on Poverty
Picture credit to: Opportunity for All (Government of Canada) Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and...
Annie Lowrey: New book “Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World”
In her recent work Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake...
USA: Trump’s response to poverty in the USA
Picture credit to: Big Think. On the 12th of July 2018, Trump's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) released the report...
US: Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan invites junior scholars to workshop on Basic Income
University of Michigan in Autumn. Credit to: Flickr. Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan, in...
MAN CHOOSES PRISON OVER POVERTY (from 2006)
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in September 2006. I was struck by a report in the...
Felix FitzRoy and Jim Jin, “Basic Income and a Public Job Offer: Complementary Policies to Reduce Poverty and Unemployment”
A case for a modest (partial) basic income plus a local job offer.