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Basic Income and solving the polycrisis
The Basic Income Canada Network (BICN) is hosting the 2026 Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Congress at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) from August 19 to 22. This year’s list of impressive presenters will address the theme, Basic Income...
Anthropic CEO Floats Tax on AI firms to Fund Universal Income
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on governments to tax AI companies to fund a universal basic income and introduce employee retention incentives to account for the potential impact the technology could have on the labor market. In a five-point blog...
A Living Wage Floor
Families should be able to work, care for each other, and build toward a future without the constant threat of financial collapse. But the labor market—defined by low wages, volatile income, and eroding employer benefits—no longer delivers that foundation for a...
New publication: Marc Doussard, Jurgen De Wispelaere and Joe Chrisp, Cash in Hand: Basic income as regional policy
In a new publication Cash in Hand, Marc Doussard, Jurgen De Wispelaere and Joe Chrisp make the case for basic income as a policy solution that reinvigorates left-behind places. Featuring a foreword by Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty...
The Land Dividend: How a Land Value Tax Can Fund a UBI
Imagine two plots of land in the heart of a big city, side by side, the exact same size. On one stands a gleaming fifty-story tower full of offices and apartments and shops. On the other sits a zero-story parking lot. Now ask yourself: which owner pays more in taxes?...
Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth
Last week the UN Special Rapporteur for Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Olivier De Schutter, presented the Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth to the UN Human Rights Council, outlining a visionary, hopeful, radical pathway beyond the crises and...
Student talent night raises thousands for UBI Taiwan’s single-parent basic income program
Students at Taipei’s Forum Music Auditorium raised funds for UBI Taiwan’s single-parent basic income program through a talent night sponsored by Ascent Academy.
BIEN 40th anniversary: The 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and beyond
BIEN in the 1980s What if your income didn't depend on having a job? The 1980s began with small meetings and turned into a network. In September 1986, around sixty people gathered in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. To read the full article, click here. BIEN in the 1990s...
UNLOCKING NEW PATHWAYS FOR ERADICATING POVERTY BEYOND GROWTH
A roadmap for eradicating poverty beyond growth Together with United Nations agencies, governments, civil society, academics, trade unions and others, the former Special Rapporteur is developing a Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth. The Roadmap will be...
BIEN Invites Contributors to Share Memories for 40th Anniversary Oral History Project
As the Basic Income Earth Network prepares to mark its 40th anniversary, BIEN is inviting longtime members, contributors, affiliates, activists, scholars, and supporters to take part in its 40th Anniversary Oral History Project. The project will collect personal...
BIEN Congresses
The next annual BIEN Congress will occur August 19th-22th at the Toronto Metropolitan University. The BIEN Congress will not be occurring in USA this year.
Theme: Basic Income and the Polycrisis: The Key to Unlocking the Puzzle 🔑
See pictures from the 24th BIEN CONGRESS in Maricá & Niterói here.