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New poem on Basic Income
Harula Ladd has researched and written a poem titled "Turn on the Tap" about UBI in the UK for a project that aims to combine facts and science with creativity and the arts to share information and inspiration about innovative ideas that could bring hope to the...
The Evolution of Ukraine’s Income Support Program
This article is based on a post by Scott Santens, and quotes extensively from it, New information was also obtained today from an article by Violetta Orlova forwarded by a Russian BIEN activist born in Ukraine, Alexander Soloviev. On December 19, 2021, Ukraine...
Pope Francis and Basic Income in the context of Catholic social teaching and theology
Dr. Markus Schlagnitweit, Director of the Catholic Social Academy Austria, has written an article about Catholic teaching and theory and basic income. Several statements of Pope Francis about basic income were reviewed. In his paper, Schlagnitweit rejects the claim...
The 4th “Clarification of the Basic Income’s Definition” (CBID) Open Forum
Topic: ‘Uniformity’ as a Characteristic of Basic Income: 1pm GMT (2pm London), 26th Tuesday April 2022 As it stands, BIEN’s definition of BI permits discrimination on the basis of gender, race and creed. The addition of a new characteristic ‘uniform’ could lead to...
Income Movement: Quarterly State of the Movement Video
This virtual event on 22 March 2022, organized by Income Movement, provided an opportunity to hear from legislators, experts, and thought leaders on the current state of the basic income movement in the United States. Guest speakers discussed national, state,...
Social Europe Blog and UBI
Social Europe is an influential blog that some years ago published some articles both for and against Basic Income that Philippe Van Parijs edited into a book. The blog has now returned to the subject with a new post, A European basic income? The ethos is now...
The BIEN hubs project: Appointment of a Co-ordinator
Since 1986, BIEN has facilitated the global Basic Income debate. It is now looking forward to an exciting new three-year BIEN Hubs project, funded by the Mustardseed Trust, that will further expand and globalise its activity, and enable it to meet the many demands now...
Workshop on the Catalan Universal Basic Income Pilot Project
Dear all, we are pleased to invite you to the Workshop on the Catalan Universal Basic Income Pilot Project. It will take place on Thursday 31 March and Friday 1 April and will be accessible online...
Digital conference: Universal Basic Income and Debt-free Sovereign Money
The University of Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies, together with the Berlin based think tank polisphere are holding a digital conference on Wednesday 23.03.2022 chaired by Geoff Crocker, author of 'Basic Income and Sovereign Money‘ and editor of the web...
New publication! Basic Income and the Social Investment State
New publication! Basic Income and the Social Investment State: Towards Mutual Reinforcement? by Luke Martinelli and Yannick Vanderborght in European Journal of Social Securityhttps://doi.org/10.1177/13882627221085019 Is a social investment strategy compatible with the...
