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Where to stay during the 24th BIEN Congress and how to get around between the cities?
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UBI in Ireland after 32 months
When? Wednesday, June 4, 2025, 6:30-8:00 PM UK GMT +1hr (BST) Where? Online (Zoom) UBI Lab Arts, UBI Lab Leeds, UBI Lab Network and Basic Income Ireland present: Please join us for the sixth in our special series of discussions dedicated to reflecting on what we can...
New book by Geoff Crocker, “Rethinking Income and Money”
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Library on UBI updated
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Fabienne Hansen talk on Basic Income as Local Social Policy in Brazil, Frankfurt, May 28
Exception or Vision for the Future? Basic Income as Local Social Policy in Brazil AbstractIn 2013, the city of Maricá launched a political experiment by introducing a social policy inspired by basic income (in Portuguese: Renda Básica de Cidadania de Maricá)....
UBI Times Issue 3 now out
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Full program for BIEN 2025 Congress now available
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New report on Oakland CA Resilient Families pilot
"Oakland Resilient Families began with former Mayor Libby Schaaf’s pledge to bring a guaranteed income pilot to Oakland when she joined Mayors for a Guaranteed Income as a founding mayor in the summer of 2020. With an intentional focus on groups with the greatest...
Submission to the report “Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth” to the Office of the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights
With endorsement from 70 of its affiliates and partner organizations from over 30 countries, BIEN has submitted the following inputs to the office of the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights seeking inputs for the Roadmap for Eradicating...
Videos of BIEN 2024 Congress sessions now available
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BIEN Congresses
The 24th BIEN CONGRESS in Maricá & Niterói – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 27-29 August 2025
Linkedin, Instagram, X – biencongress25 (at) gmail [dot] com
BIEN2024 was August 29–31 (Pictures and more coming soon)