by Karl Widerquist | Apr 3, 2016 | News
A seminar, entitled “Basic income in a global world: Seminar” will take place on 13 April 2016, from 12:00 to 16:00 in Kelan päätalon auditorio, Nordenskiöldinkatu 12, Helsinki tai video.
This seminar looks at prospects for a basic income in a global environment. What challenges do EU legislation and a globalised labour market present for the basic income? The seminar features lectures in English by Professor Guy Standing of the University of London and Jurgen de Wispelaere, a research fellow at the University of Tampere. It will also be broadcast live over the internet.
The event takes place in conjunction with Kela, which is beginning research to conduct a basic income pilot project in Finland.
To read more about it in Finnish go to this link.
To watch the video broadcast in English and Finnish, go to this link.
by Karl Widerquist | Apr 2, 2016 | News
A Forum Research poll, released March 26th, reveals that support for a basic income has increased in the Canadian province of Ontario.
According to the report, “In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll among 1225 Ontario voters, the plurality, 4-in-10, approve of an Ontario basic income to replace social assistance and other provincial support payments (41%). One third disapprove of the idea (33%) and as many as a quarter have no opinion (26%).”
According to the Huffington Post, approval of Basic Income in Ontario has risen from 27 to 41 percent since 2012 and disapproval has dropped from 39 to 31 percent so that a plurality now supports basic income (the rest being unsure).
Some of the articles below (e.g. Huffington Post) include comparisons to previous polls.
References and Reports:
Forum Research, “Plurality approves of basic income” The Forum Poll, March 30, 2016
Daniel Tencer “Approval For Basic Income Jumps In Ontario.” The Huffington Post Canada, 03/30/2016
Andrew Russell. “Support for guaranteed minimum income rises in Ontario, poll finds.” Global News, March 30, 2016
Robert Benzi. “Ontarians warming to guaranteed minimum income, poll suggests.” The Toronto Star. Mar 30 2016
Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa, left, delivers the Ontario 2016 budget next to Premier Kathleen Wynne, right, at Queen’s Park in Toronto on Thursday, February 25, 2016. -THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette via Global News
by Karl Widerquist | Feb 22, 2016 | News
The last chance to send a proposal for the 16th Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Congress closes February 29, 2016. The 16th BIEN Congress: “Social and Ecological Transformation and Basic Income” will in held in Seoul, Korea, 7–9 July 2016. The call for proposals is online. It is organized by the Basic Income Korean Network (BIKN). The BIEN Congress is the oldest and largest conference on Basic Income in the world, having had one meeting every two years since 1986. The organizers invite people from all over the world to make a proposal and participate in the Congress.
The full call for proposals is online at: https://bien2016.org/en/call-for-papers/
For more information go to: https://bien2016.org/en/
Proposals should be sent to: bien2016.callforpapers@gmail.com by 29 February 2016.
Contact the local organizing committee at contact@bien2016.org.
by Karl Widerquist | Jan 28, 2016 | News
The deadline for the call for proposals for the 16th Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Congress has been extended to February 29, 2016. The 16th BIEN Congress: “Social and Ecological Transformation and Basic Income” will in held in Seoul, Korea, 7–9 July 2016. It is organized by the Basic Income Korean Network (BIKN). The BIEN Congress is the oldest and largest conference on Basic Income in the world, having had one meeting every two years since 1986. The organizers invite people from all over the world to make a proposal and participate in the Congress.
The full call for proposals is online at: https://bien2016.org/en/call-for-papers/
For more information go to: https://bien2016.org/en/
Proposals should be sent to: bien2016.callforpapers@gmail.com by 29 February 2016.
Contact the local organizing committee at contact@bien2016.org.
by Karl Widerquist | Dec 14, 2015 | News
The Universal Income Project is looking for a motivated part-time Basic Income Organizer, helping to advocate for an American Universal Basic Income. They’re organizing Basic Income Create-A-Thons around the United States.
The first basic income Create-a-thon
A Create-A-Thon is a weekend marathon of intrinsically-motivated work, writers, artists, videographers, developers, musicians, and other creatives come together to create content and media around the theme of a Universal Basic Income in the United States. They’ve already organized one Create-A-Thon, which took place in November in San Francisco. They’re now looking to organize them in other cities.
This is a month-to-month position with a $1000 stipend per month, starting immediately. The commitment is 15 hours/week, and applicants must be in the San Francisco Bay Area. Location will be flexible for most work hours, but applicants must have regular access to a computer and internet. For more information go to: https://www.universalincome.org/job-offer-basic-income-organizer/
Or email: questions@universalincome.org.
