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News on the global Basic Income debate
Roderick Benns, “Canada looking to PEI for basic income guarantee”
SUMMARY: This article discusses Canada's need to address a basic income guarantee, and how Prince Edward Island is leading the way with all-party commitment to basic income guarantee policy, at least at some level. All eyes are now upon them to see how this...
Reyer Brons, “Ook de SER noemt het basisinkomen” [SER starts talking basic income too]
The influential Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands has quietly started an internal debate on basic income. The official newsletter of the so-called SER (“Sociaal-economische Raad”, an official advisory organ composed of national employers and employee...
Fred E. Foldvary, “There Will Always be Labor”
Economist Fred E. Foldvary puts forward an argument that basic income in the economy of the future should be based on sharing land rents equally, rather than taxing financial capital or capital goods. Responding to an article in The Atlantic by Derek Thompson,...
International: Guy Standing to discuss basic income in Austria, Australia, and England
Guy Standing, honorary president of BIEN, noted author, and leading advocate of Basic Income will give five talks on Basic Income over the next six weeks. The presentations are: August 20-24, 09.00-12.00: summer school seminar series on “Work, distribution and crisis...
Carl Benedikt Frey, “How to Prevent the End of Economic Growth”
SUMMARY: Carl Benedikt Frey has written extensively about job loss due to technological advances. He finishes this piece by concluding that we need to create an environment that encourages more entrepreneurial risk taking: and that a basic income would...
UNITED STATES: Basic Income Action national advocacy group is launched
Basic Income Action is a recently formed nonprofit organization with chapters across the United States whose mission is to win a basic income for all by educating and organizing people to take action. This group is a project of the National Institute for...
INTERNATIONAL: Basic Income Women’s Action Group Forms
A Basic Income action group, organized by and for women, is currently coming together. Below is the organizers invitation to join the group--reprinted in full: To: Basic Income Supporters From: Ann Withorn (Massachusetts) and Liane Gale (Minnesota) Re: Basic Income...
Obituary: Nico Hammann
Nico Hammann collected around 5,000 signatures for the Swiss basic income initiative helping it succeed in collecting the more than 100,000 signatures that were needed to force a national referendum on the issue. The initiative submitted the signatures to the federal...
UNITED KINGDOM: Channel 4 News’s economics editor refers BI in his new book
Paul Mason, the award-winning economics editor of Channel 4 News, argues in favour of a basic income in his new book entitled PostCapitalism: A guide to our future, published in 30th July 2015 by Allen Lane, London. Neoliberalism is broken, Mason argues, and we...
NETHERLANDS: Independent Liberal Party Says it is Time for Basic Income
The New Liberal Party of the Netherlands has promised to work up a parliamentary motion in favour of a fully-fledged basic income for all Dutch citizens.
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