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BIEN job description/application for Asia/Pacific Hub Coordinator
BIEN is recruiting for a new paid position as Asia/Pacific Hub Coordinator. The deadline to submit applications is 6 Ictober 2023. The Asia/Pacific Coordinator will be responsible for formalizing BIEN structures and operations in the Asia/Pacific region with respect...
16th International Basic Income Week Mo-Su 18th-24th September 2023
Hello Basic Income Week Supporters, we are happily to announce the Motto of the 16th International Basic Income Week Mo-Su 18th-24th September...
Catalans’ public opinion on Universal Basic Income
Aida Martinez Tinaut Office of the Pilot Project to Implement the UBI in Catalonia A survey was conducted in Catalonia between September and November 2022 with a total N of 3,098 which showed, among many other interesting findings, that the general catalan...
Basic Income: Sufficient Evidence, Now Politics
In 1942, as people started to think about remaking society after the War, William Beveridge wrote a report for the British government that was to shape the welfare state in Europe. He wrote, ‘It is a time for revolutions, not for patching.’ What he meant was that it...
Brazil’s President Lula’s declaration on Basic Income published in May 2023
In the eighth edition of Eduardo Suplicy’s book, Citizen’s Income: The Way out is through the Door (Renda de Cidadania: A Saída É Pela Porta) there is a dialog between Suplicy and now re-elected President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva on the occasion of Suplicy’s 80th...
Arguments for UBI were presented at the Constituent Assembly in Chile
On the 1st of December, the Comission of Fundamental Rights received the president and secretary of the Chilean Basic Income Network (Red Chilena de Ingreso Básico) Gabriela Cabaña and Cristóbal Ramos. The intervention included the justifications of basic income as a...
A new project from FRIBIS: Universal Basic Income and Gender
The Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS), a network of several faculties at the University of Freiburg, has expanded with a new international team which focuses on basic income and gender issues, pulled together by Enno Schmidt. It uses as a starting...
BIEN Congresses
BIEN’s 2023 Congress to be held in Seoul, Korea Wed. 23rd to Sat. 26th August 2023.
