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Nicolas Colin and Bruno Palier, “The next safety net”
The global economy is rapidly transforming as technology captures an increasingly greater share of human workforce, leaving many behind. The answer to this issue is a basic income guarantee, according to a recent Foreign Affairs article. In the last century, the...
BIEN’s Basic Income Week “Ask Me Anything” Series Begins Tuesday, September 15
The Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) together with the /r/BasicIncome community on Reddit has planned a series of Q&A events throughout Basic Income Week (September 14-20, 2015). Each event is called an AMA, which stands for "Ask Me Anything." In each event a...
ITALY: Max Weber Multidisciplinary Conference on The Future of Basic Income Research
On the 26th and 27th of June 2015, in Badia Fiesolana, Florenza, Italy, a conference in Italy attempted to answer one complex question: what is the future of Basic Income (BI) research? The conference at the European University Institute approached this question...
Russell Shaw Higgs, “Guardian Witness”
Russell Shaw Higgs has include several images of basic income in the online gallery, "Guardian Witness." The gallery is part of the website of the British newspaper, the Guardian, which has to approve all images included. Russell Shaw Higgs is an activist who makes...
GERMANY: Ralph Boes’ Sanction Starvation
Basic income activist Ralph Boes is on hunger strike to denounce the workfare system in Germany.
Thomas Piketty further discusses his book “Capital in the twenty-first century” and extends relations to basic income
After the resounding commercial and critical success of Thomas Piketty's book "Capital in the twenty-first century", the author himself responded, in the form of an article in the latest release of Basic Income Studies, to critics and to proponents of Basic Income...
CANADA: Thunder Bay Mayor Publicizes Support for Basic Income
Mayor Keith Hobbs of Thunder Bay, Ontario, has joined the mayors of Edmonton and Calgary in publicly stating his support for a basic income. Hobbs believes basic income provides a certain degree of self-worth to every individual and helps fight poverty, addiction, and...
Anton Fernandez de Rota, “About technology, basic income and the extinction of work [De la tecnología, la Renta Básica y la extinción del trabajo]”
This article critically assesses both sides in the debate about the advance of technology’s impact on the future of employment. Social media is a great example of how new technology has actually created more jobs in the process of technological advancement, but other...
EUROPE: Council of Europe Releases Largely Pro-Basic Income Report
The Council of Europe has released an EU-funded report titled Living in dignity in the 21st century: Poverty and inequality in societies of human rights à the paradox of democracies in which a large group of researchers sought to determine what it will take to live...
Michael Howard, “We should prepare for the worst consequences of climate change”
Howard, Coordinator of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network, writes this opinion piece as a condemning evaluation of the world’s lack of action to combat climate change. Climate summit meetings have created a cycle of (broken) promises to reduce carbon emissions,...
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