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Taiwan holds first online basic income summit
After over a year of avoiding significant local COVID outbreaks, Taiwan experienced a scare in May with hundreds of cases emerging. This brought the idea of universal cash payments to the forefront of Taiwan’s political debate as millions of jobs were destabilized...
A comprehensive history of Basic Income
A comprehensive history of Basic Income is to be published this month. The publisher says this about the book: Presenting a truly comprehensive history of Basic Income, Malcolm Torry explores the evolution of the concept of a regular unconditional income for...
Alaska Permanent Fund Defenders campaign to save the Dividend
The Alaska Permanent Fund was started in 1982 to make sure Alaskans directly benefit from its resources in the wake of its oil boom in the 1970s. Part of the proceeds from investments of the principle, which is held in trust for the state and invested by an...
3rd Gyeonggi Basic Income Conference featured researchers from BIEN
With the theme, 'From the COVID-19 Disaster to New Great Transition, Basic Income!' the 3rd annual Basic Income International Conference was held in Gyeonggi Provence, South Korea, 28-29 April 2021. Hosted by the Gyeonggi Provincial Government, and organised by...
PhD Fellowship on Basic Income for Nature and Climate at the University of Freiburg, Germany for applicants from Indonesia
From the website: The PhD project is part of the larger Basic Income research project that studies how basic income is potentially linked with nature protection and tackling climate change, and how these possible linkages can be addressed in an embedded...
The 2021 NABIG congress
The 19th North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress was held from the 17th to the 19th June 2021. Videos are now available of all 35 sessions and over 100 presenters. Congress website Videos of congress sessions
Basic Income trial confirmed in Wales
Mark Drakeford, Wales’ new First Minister, announced soon after the Senedd elections in May that the government will launch a basic income trial in the country. As Basic Income News mentioned over a month ago, the support for trialing basic income in the country has...
Los Angeles is the latest city in the US to announce the launch of a guaranteed income program
A new guaranteed income program has just been announced in the US, this time in the country’s second largest city, Los Angeles. In his proposed budget for the fiscal year 2021-2022, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti included a $24-million guaranteed basic income project that...
King’s College Workshop explored “The Ethics of Basic Income in a Changing Economy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIjLNqbdzlg On 23 April 2021, Diana Popescu, Otto Lehto, and Emil Panzaru from Department of Political Economy, King's College London - organized a full-day online academic workshop called "The Ethics of UBI in a Changing Economy" that...
Basic Income in Canada: Endorsement by Liberal Party signals growing momentum
In Canada, basic income has become a central issue in the debate on a post-pandemic recovery. Recent steps taken by the governing Liberal Party to endorse the policy has begged the question whether this might represent a serious step towards a permanent national basic...
