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Living Minimum Income in Spain: very far from a UBI
In a previous news report the initial details and negotiation of the Living Minimum Income had been specified. In this piece the final details of the Minimum Living Income are specified. What is the scheme about? The Minimum Living Income (IMV, due to its acronym in...
UK Liberal Democrats discuss Basic Income
One of the contenders for the leadership of the UK's Liberal Democratic Party has edited a a book of policy ideas for the party: Build Back Better. Among those policies is a Basic Income: Nothing could be more uncertain than what will happen as we emerge from...
UNDP discussion on gender equality and Basic Income
On the 11th June 2020 the United Nations Development Programme hosted a discussion on gender equality during which Basic Income was discussed https://youtu.be/14vmGkUJq8M
Brazilian Emergency Workers Aid: the short-term response that exposes a structural problem.
When, at the end of February 2020, the first case of COVID-19 was registered in Brazil, unemployment, job insecurity and poverty were already very well established in the Brazilian social structure. In January 2020, the rate of unemployment among the Brazilian...
Report published about the Scottish Basic Income pilot project feasibility study
The group studying the desirability and feasibility of a Basic Income pilot project in Scotland has published its final report. "PARTNERS involved in exploring the feasibility of a Citizens’ Basic Income (CBI) pilot in Scotland have completed the draft final report on...
BIEN’s new website
BIEN has a new website. We hope you like it. It's designed to be easy to navigate. The main menu has just three items: 'Home', 'About Basic Income', and 'Frequently asked questions'. Anyone wanting more information can click the 'news', 'opinion', 'research',...
The United States, Basic Income, and Covid
The second in a series of zoomcasts has now been published. https://youtu.be/wMVhfSN-Rfs Unprecendented unemployment figures in the United States of America in the wake of COVID-19 require a new type of response - Is Universal Basic Income the answer? Karl Widerquist...
A new video about Basic Income from Share Ideas
Share Ideas has published a new video about Basic Income. https://youtu.be/ttjMC7Diz9s A Basic Income is an unconditional income paid to every individual. It’s as simple as that. It has a number of different names: Citizen’s Income, Basic Income, Citizen’s Basic...
COVID19 in Argentina. Situation and public policy responses.
By Corina Rodríguez Enríquez and Rubén Lo Vuolo Argentina presented the first confirmed case of Covid19 in the first days of March. On the 20th of that month, the national government ordered the Compulsory Social Isolation (ASO) of the entire population, the...
Obituary: Lieselotte Wohlgenannt
Lieselotte Wohlgenannt died in Bregenz (Austria) on the 29th of May 2020. Born in 1931, Lieselotte was one of Europe’s first prominent advocates of basic income. After studying in Bregenz and Paris and spending ten years working for the catholic school network in the...
