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A ballot initiative in Oregon is making progress towards establishing a state UBI
May 23, 2023 Press Release In Oregon, a ballot initiative is making progress towards establishing a statewide Universal Basic Income. Portland, OR — The Oregon Rebate (IP 2024-017) ballot initiative campaign has announced early success in collecting the...
Basic Income for the Arts in Ireland – What have we learned after 8 months?
What? Basic Income for the Arts in Ireland – What have we learned after 8 months? When? Wednesday 7th June 2023 6:30pm – 8pm BST, Where? Online: You can register for the event here. UBI Lab Arts, UBI Lab Leeds and UBI Lab Network, in association with Basic Income...
New book: The Popularity of Basic Income – Evidence from the Polls
How popular is basic income among the general public and different groups within it? Although many argue that this question is hugely important for the political feasibility of public opinion, the current scientific evidence is very much scattered. This book provides...
How can we pay for UBI? Is Sovereign Money the Solution?
UBI Lab Leeds and UBI Lab Network invite you to this thought-provoking webinar. Geoff Crocker proposes to use Sovereign Money. He will discuss his proposition with Malcolm Sawyer who is a retired professor of economics from the University of Leeds and a critic of the...
FRIBIS Announces Annual Conference 9-11 October
This year’s FRIBIS Annual Conference will take place in Freiburg, Germany from 9 to 11 October and will focus on the topic "Care and Gender – Potentials & Risks of UBI". Over the past few decades care work and the social dimension of gender have increasingly...
Deputy Eduardo Suplicy testifies in favor of UBI in Brazil’s Federal Senate
BIEN member Eduardo Suplicy, pictured above with BIEN Chair Sarath Davala at the Hyderabad BIEN Congress, testified in favor of a measure implementing a law he authored in 2004 gradually implementing a Citizens Basic Income (UBI) in Brazil. The invited testimony took...
Report of the UK UBI Movement Gathering, 2023
Saturday April 30th was a significant day for the UK UBI movement, as over 30 people from around the country came together in Sheffield to discuss movement coordination and consolidation. Attendees included politicians, researchers, civil society organisations, and...
A tribute to Götz W. Werner: New YouTube videos
Two videos on the legacy of Götz Werner produced by Enno Schmidt have just been published on the FRIBIS YouTube channel: Prof. Bernhard Neumärker draws connections between Götz Werner’s various guiding entrepreneurial principles in his lecture “UBI & New...
FRIBIS Summer School Announcement
FRIBIS will be hosting a three-part Summer School this year which will take place in Freiburg (Germany). Each part will focus on the topic of “Empirical Methods in UBI Investigation” but from different perspectives. The Summer School will be held in English and...
Indonesia: Yogyakarta’s Basic Income Pilot Experiment (YBIP)
Jamesta Istimewa is a Basic Income Pilot experiment that provides participants free cash payments without strings attached. "Jamesta" means Universal Basic Income Guarantee in Bahasa (Indonesian language), and "Istimewa" means "special," which is nothing but another...
BIEN Congresses
The 24th BIEN CONGRESS in Maricá & Niterói – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 27-29 August 2025
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BIEN2024 was August 29–31 (Pictures and more coming soon)