Basic Income Pilot for Homeless in Denver, Colorado
For one year, Denver will provide 140 people experiencing homelessness $12,000 with no strings attached as part of a program testing universal basic income. Read the details here,
Letter to Members of the European Parliament re UBI
You can read here a letter and its annex that we, UBI-EI (Unconditional Basic Income – European Initiative), are sending to all MEPs (Member of European Parliaments) in an attempt to steer the current EU – wide conversation about the “Minimum Income” towards a social policy that’s as unconditional as possible.
Signed:
Germany – Ronald Blaschke; Austria – Klaus Sambor; Spain – Angel Bravo; Spain – Leo del Prado; Latvia – Aija Lasmane; Estonia – Jaanus Nurmoja; Hungary – Evamaria Langer-Dombrady; Italy – Fabio Alemagna; Italy – Michele Gianella; Turkey – Ali Mutlu Köylüoğlu
New Book on Basic Income in the World
This book — written by Marek Hrubec, Martin Brabec, and Marketa Minarova — “offers an introduction to the important idea and practice of unconditional basic income, which is becoming a topic increasingly discussed not only among researchers but also among citizens and the politicians who represent them. The topic is also increasingly making its way into the mass media….. This book discusses basic income by presenting the main arguments and experiments with basic income in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Basic income offers the possibility of a major social and civilizational change for all.”
For details from the publisher, click here.
Basic Income Week 2022: 19-25 September
We are heading to the 15th International Basic Income Week. Social media appearance is here https://basicincomeweek.org/downloads2022/ Just keep the date and brainstorm about new ideas to make Basic Income enter this new era! #basicincomeweek15.
Read all the details on events planned here.
Large Basic Income for Artists pilot launched in Ireland
On 8 September 2022, 2,000 Irish Artists and Creative Arts Workers were granted Basic Income for the Arts. This historic new scheme explores support for artists and creative practice in a 3-year pilot that provides €325 per week as part of a research project. Read the details here.
A new book and report on UBI research in the UK
In August, 2022, a new book and a new report on UBI research in the UK were published.
The book is The macroeconomics of basic income by Zsófi Kőműves, Chris Thoung, and Jakub Zagdanski. It was published by Cambridge Trust for New Thinking in Economics and can be downloaded free here.
While there is growing work on the small-scale (micro) impacts of basic income on people and households, there is much less that considers how such policies might affect an entire economy. This new research by Cambridge Econometrics looks more closely at the economy-wide (macroeconomic) effects of basic income as it might operate in the UK.
A new report, ‘Technological change and growth regimes: Assessing the case for universal basic income (UBI) in an era of declining labour shares’, has been published by the University of Bath Institute for Policy Research (IPR).
The report, co-authored by Joe Chrisp, Aida Garcia-Lazaro and Nick Pearce, supported by funding from Geoff Crocker, examines to what extent the role of technological change is responsible for a decline in the labour share, and discusses the likely effects, and political feasibility, of policy solutions such as universal basic income (UBI).
Cambridge Econometrics’ mission is to provide clear and useful insights, based on rigorous and
independent economic analysis, to address the complex challenges facing society.
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Cambridge Econometrics Limited is owned by a charitable body,
the Cambridge Trust for New Thinking in Economics.
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Contact person: Chris Thoung (ct@camecon.com)
Authors: Zsófi Kőműves (zsk@camecon.com)
Chris Thoung
Jakub Zagdanski
