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News on the global Basic Income debate
UBIdata: Data for Basic Income Research and Policy
At its most recent congress, BIEN launched UBIdata, an innovative new tool with a mission to match reliable information about basic income with a rapidly growing global user base of individuals and organisations eager to learn more. UBIdata gathers, processes and...
How can Universal Basic Income Aid a Just Transition?
On September 24th at 6pm EST Equal Right, in collaboration with the Cap and Share Climate Alliance (CASCA), will be hosting an event as part of NYC Climate Week 2024 titled ‘How can Universal Basic Income Aid a Just Transition?’ The event will take...
Photos from all three days of the 2024 BIEN Congress
Below you will find links to folders of photographs I took at the 2024 BIEN Congress held at the University of Bath on August 29-31. Not all sessions are covered. 2024-08-29 BIEN Congress Day 1 2024-08-29 BIEN Congress Day 2 2024-08-29 BIEN Congress Day 3 Click on the...
Eduardo Suplicy’s speech at the closing ceremony, 2024 BIEN Congress
Below you will find the full text of Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy's planned address at the closing ceremony of 2024 BIEN Congress at the University of Bath, UK, on August 31, 2024. He was conscious that he had to respect the ten-minute time limit set by the organization...
Photos from Day 1 of Bath Congress
To view and download 49 Photos, click here.
BIEN Press Release – BIEN’s submission to the 2025 Review of the Peacebuilding Architecture
On 8 August 2024, the Basic Income Earth Network submitted input for the United Nations Secretary-General’s report on the 2025 Review of the Peacebuilding Architecture, upon invitation of the United Nations (UN) Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO). This proposal was...
BIEN Press Release – Responding to Disturbances: Why a Basic Income is Vital
The recent riots in English urban areas and in Northern Ireland were precipitated by racism, extremist nationalism and religious bigotry. That’s what everybody sees, and everyone is responding to. However, the unseen underlying cause of such attitudes and behaviour is...
Breaking: Oregon Rebate has qualified as Measure 118!
We have fantastic news to share: Oregon Rebate has qualified for the November 2024 ballot as Measure 118! Measure 118 will increase the minimum corporate tax rate after $25 million of in-state revenue by 3%. The proposed increase will raise at least $6 billion...
Working, but poor: The middle class in crisis
This week the European TV channel ARTE has put out a long documentary, shown around Europe, based on a three-hour interview they did with Guy Standing some months ago. They followed it up by talking to people in Germany, France, Spain, Austria and Sweden, letting them...
Basic income as an innovative social protection tool
As a tool that speaks to 7 out of the 17 SDGs, basic income pilots have shown transformative effects in communities. This blog post calls for a systematic consideration of this tool in social protection schemes across humanitarian, development and peacebuilding...
BIEN Congresses
BIEN2024 was August 29–31 in Bath (England).
More resources from the event forthcoming.
