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News on the global Basic Income debate
Cash handouts in Japan: How the financial incentive offered to the whole population in Japan compares to Basic Income
For weeks now, the coronavirus pandemic has affected the livelihoods of people across the world. As the global economy is negatively impacted by the pandemic, governments all around the world have released incentive packages in a bid to counter the economic...
Recent news from Russia
Alexander Solovev, Social movement “Basic income Russia Tomorrow”, has written several articles about what is happening in ex-USSR countries now on what measures governments are taking to protect the citizens of their countries during the coronavirus pandemic. These...
Journal of European Social Policy blog article about Basic Income
The Journal of European Social Policy has published a JESP European Social Policy Blog article, ‘The Basic Income Debate: Keeping it Intelligent‘, by Malcolm Torry During the past five years or so we have seen growing interest in the idea of a Basic Income (also...
Precarious Work, Unemployment Benefit Generosity, and Basic Income
The Journal of Social Policy has published an article by Young-Kyu Shin, Teemu Kmppainen and Katai Kuitto, ‘Precarious Work, Unemployment Benefit Generosity and Universal Basic Income Preferences: A Multilevel Study on 21 European Countries’ Abstract The idea of...
Launch of the BIEN Conversations – why critical debate is more important than ever
In April BIEN’s Executive Committee agreed plans to respond to the growing public attention to basic income during the Covid crisis.
New European opinion poll on Basic Income
FEPS (the Foundation for European Progressive Studies) has published the results of a wide-ranging opinion survey: Across the EU14 a plurality of citizens support the idea of universal basic income. Respondents who fully agree (24%) and are somewhat supportive (22%)...
More results of the Finnish experiment published
At a presentation on Wednesday 6th May, Kela, the Finnish social security agency, gave further results from the first year of its Basic Income experiment. The trial group was 2,000 randomly selected unemployed individuals who had their unemployment benefit made...
Webinars on recent developments
Universal Basic Income Europe is hosting Sunday afternoon webinars about recent developments around Europe. The webinar on the 3rd May was about the United Kingdom. For details of future events, see the UBIE website. .
Faun Rice: “The Global Turn to Cash Transfers”
Faun Rice, a former Basic Income News editor, has just posted an article on the new Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) (and the characteristics it shares with universal basic income). That article, called "The Global Turn to Cash Transfers", starts with a lucid...
The Corsica Assembly votes for a Negative Income Tax with a notional basic income
There is a translation of this article into French On 30 April 2020, the six political groups met through video conference to deliberate on a long-awaited report. Since 2017, an ad hoc committee has been studying the possible advantages and conditions for a Basic...
