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About BIEN The Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) is an international, non-profit organisation dedicated to fostering informed discussion of basic income policies, promoting research, and supporting movements around the world. Our volunteers help amplify the global...

Karl Widerquist will be presenting on "The Falling Cost of Basic Income" at the Cash Transfer Lab's online meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 2:30pm - 3:30pm Eastern Time (US)--that's 1:30 Central, 19:30 UK and 20:30 CET. The study is by Jack Rossbach and Karl....

We hope you had a chance to rest and spend some meaningful time with family and friends over the past weeks. As the year draws to a close and the weather gets colder, the conversation surrounding basic income has started to heat up across the world. Rep. Rashida...

Newsletter Dec, 2025 The UBI Piloters Network is a global platform connecting researchers, policymakers, and activists running or interested in Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) trials, aiming to share findings and best practices, and it's closely linked with the Basic...

Malcolm Torry's handbook, A Research Agenda for Basic Income, has now been published in paperback and as an e-book. To access the publication, click here.

"CHICAGO, IL – As working families struggle amidst an affordability crisis, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is taking bold action to make Cook County’s guaranteed income program permanent, putting money directly back in the pockets of working families....

In September 2020, the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media Catherine Martin set up the Arts and Culture Taskforce which was tasked with producing a report on how the arts and culture sector could adapt and recover from the COVID-19...