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BIEN Collaboration with the UN Special Rapporteur
Since 2025, BIEN has had the pleasure of collaborating with the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter. Together with our partner, Equal Right, we have submitted inputs on how Basic Income can contribute to the Special...
BIEN Treasurer Lindsay Stirton has completed the Rio Marathon
Following several months of hard training (and with some concern an Achilles tendon injury might be getting in the way), our Treasurer Lindsay Stirton last Sunday completed the Rio Marathon. Congratulations for a huge achievement!! Lindsay ran his 42K in support of...
Philosophy Compass articles on Basic Income Published
New open access publications on basic income and sustainable welfare Two new articles in Philosophy Compass examine the role of basic income (BI) in the green transformation of advanced welfare states: “Basic Income—A Transformative Policy for Sustainable...
Basic Income for the Arts in Ireland – From Pilot to Permanent
Please join us for the eighth and final event in our special series of discussions dedicated to reflecting on what we can learn from the Irish Basic Income for the Arts Pilot and its change to Permanent. The Government of Ireland ran a Basic Income pilot that began in...
AI leaders see mass job loss coming. They want government’s help solving it.
Photo by Andy Feliciotti on Unsplash Elon Musk has a plan for a future where jobs are wiped out by artificial intelligence: a benevolent government will provide. “Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with...
The Universality Argument for Basic Income
Imagine a room with a thousand people. You know that 999 of them need something to survive, and one of them doesn’t. You have two options. Option one: give the same thing to all 1,000 people, and when they leave through a door where everyone’s income is already being...
AI, UBI, and the Threat of Extinction
Photo by Steve A Johnson on Unsplash Steven Bartlett has interviewed separately three leading experts on artificial intelligence (AI) and a business strategist as part of his podcast series, The Diary of a CEO. These fascinating in-de[th interviews all...
Wages, Work, and Universal Basic Income: Two conceptual articles by Jorg Drescher
Jorge Drescher of Kyiv, Ukraine has written two thought-provoking articles posing conceptual issues related to wages, work, and basic income. The first article "Wage Negotiation -- Observed by a Third Party", raises a number of doubts concerning the process by which...
Basic Income is key to averting a dystopian future
Ontario Basic Income recipient - Photo credit: Jessie Golem The Basic Income Canada Network (BICN) along with allies including Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) are organizing the 2026 Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Congress being held in...
Basic Income and Climate Costs
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash How can basic income function as climate adaptation infrastructure amid rising energy costs and data center expansion? Arif Gasilov is Partner, Climate & Environmental Reporting at Gasilov Group, where he advises companies on ESG...
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.