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Submission to the report “Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth” to the Office of the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights

by Diana Bashur | Apr 29, 2025 | Events, News

With endorsement from 70 of its affiliates and partner organizations from over 30 countries, BIEN has submitted the...

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Can Universal Basic Income Transform China’s Fight Against Poverty?

by Tyler Prochazka | Mar 13, 2025 | News

Research presented at the 2024 BIEN Congress explores China's possible shift from existing social assistance programs...

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Homeless people to be given cash in first major UK trial to reduce poverty

by Jurgen De Wispelaere | Dec 4, 2024 | News

"Researchers are conducting the UK’s first major scientific trials to establish whether giving homeless people cash is...

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Canada’s National Advisory Council on Poverty has recommended basic income

by Peter Knight | Dec 4, 2024 | News

Photo by Jason Hafso via Unsplash In chapter 5 of its annual report, Canada’s National Advisory Council on Poverty...

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The burnout economy: poverty and mental health: Summary report

by Olivier de Schutter | Oct 22, 2024 | News

Social protection schemes should be implemented tothe fullest extent possible, without excessive targeting...

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From Poverty to Hedge Fund Manager to Basic Income Advocate

by Peter Knight | Nov 26, 2023 | News

Darryl Finkton, Jr. is a hedge fund manager turned community organizer. Raised in a poor black family in Indianapolis,...

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New Report on Tackling Poverty in the UK Published by Basic Income Conversation

by Peter Knight | Jun 15, 2022 | News

The Basic Income Conversation is an initiative, powered by Compass, to promote the idea of a universal basic income in...

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World Bank recommends GMI to reduce the poverty rate in Russia

by Guest Contributor | Mar 26, 2021 | News

In Russia, as in many other countries, social benefits do not always reach those who need them. The problem has...

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Why UBI is the right solution to poverty in America

by Karl Widerquist | Jul 31, 2019 | Opinion, The Indepentarian

The following is my address, "The Power to Say No and American Social Policy," to a conference entitled, "Poverty in...

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Andrew Yang’s Main Goal: Abolish Poverty and Make the Wealthy Pay For It – A Reaction to Chapo Trap House

by Jason Burke Murphy | Jul 25, 2019 | Opinion

By Jason Burke Murphy Andrew Yang's interview with Virgil Texas on the podcast Chapo Trap House helps to answer a lot...

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Canada: National Inquiry into violence against indigenous women reveals the necessity to eliminate poverty in the country

by Andre Coelho | Jun 22, 2019 | News

On the right: Anna Fowler (director of health & social development); on the left: Qajaq Robinson (lawyer,...

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A Critical Poverty Eradication Experiment in Kenya

by Guest Contributor | Apr 9, 2019 | Opinion

GiveDirectly formed a $30 million fund to benefit 20,000 Kenyans in the most important and thorough study about UBI in history

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Combining UBI and a job offer scheme to end poverty

by Guest Contributor | Mar 13, 2019 | Opinion

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.

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UK: The current welfare state is reaching its limits, as evidence on inequality and poverty in the UK is surfaced

by Andre Coelho | Jan 17, 2019 | News

Philip Alston. Picture credit to: BBC News Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights,...

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Canada: Canada’s Federal Government is assembling a National Advisory Council on Poverty

by Andre Coelho | Dec 31, 2018 | News

Picture credit to: Opportunity for All (Government of Canada) Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and...

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Annie Lowrey: New book “Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World”

by Andrew Sanchez | Sep 14, 2018 | News

In her recent work Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake...

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USA: Trump’s response to poverty in the USA

by Jelena Vitic | Aug 21, 2018 | News, Research

Picture credit to: Big Think. On the 12th of July 2018, Trump's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) released the report...

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US: Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan invites junior scholars to workshop on Basic Income

by Patrick Hoare | Feb 9, 2018 | News

University of Michigan in Autumn. Credit to: Flickr.   Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan, in...

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MAN CHOOSES PRISON OVER POVERTY (from 2006)

by Karl Widerquist | Jan 3, 2018 | Opinion, The Indepentarian

This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in September 2006.   I was struck by a report in the...

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Felix FitzRoy and Jim Jin, “Basic Income and a Public Job Offer: Complementary Policies to Reduce Poverty and Unemployment”

by Kate McFarland | Oct 29, 2017 | Research

A case for a modest (partial) basic income plus a local job offer.

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