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How government plans to pay for a Basic Income Grant in South Africa
"President Cyril Ramaphosa is looking to try make the shift to a Basic Income Grant a reality following renewed calls in this year’s ANC’s January 8th statement – but questions have arisen as to how the country is going to fund it. “Millions of working age adults in...
Results Available: DIRECT CASH FOR A BETTER BOSTON
In partnership with UpTogether, CHV launched a direct cash pilot in 2021, selecting fifty families via lottery from the CHV community to receive an unconditional $583 per month. With this two-year pilot program, Camp Harbor View joined a burgeoning...
Tackling Homelessness with Unconditional Cash Transfers
When? Thursday, 22 February 2024 at 6:30-8 pm UK timeUBI Lab Manchester invites to an online discussion with three eminent speakers about unconditional cash transfers and homelessness: Frances Darlington-Pollock CEO of the Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity...
Health inequity is a problem, UBI could be a solution
Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash "In May 2023, academic and policy experts in social protection, economics, public health, history, and ethics gathered at the Brocher Foundation in Geneva to consider the potential for Universal Basic Income (UBI) to...
Working Group for Clarification of Basic Income Definition: Call for Contributions
The Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), at its general assembly in 2019, created the working group for "Clarification of Basic Income Definition". Since then we have had online open forum including at the online venue of the BIEN congress in 2021 Glasgow and in 2022...
FEASIBILITY AND IMPACT of Guaranteed Income in the State of Maine, USA
A new study prepared by Maine Center for Economic Policy on behalf of the Committee to Study the Feasibility of Basic Income Security is now available. To access the study, click here.
One year of basic income in Minneapolis
"A wave of experimentation in the way that U.S. cities, counties, and states support households with low incomes is sweeping the country, and Minneapolis is at the leading edge. While the backbone of America’s safety net—public health insurance, food benefits, and...
UBI in the European Union: Online Event 31st January 2024
To view the event online, click here.
Why China Could Surprise the World by Being the First Country to Adopt Universal Basic Income
The story behind this one is that I was actually asked by a publication to write it back in late 2022 after they heard in one of my interviews that I thought China could potentially surprise everyone by winning the UBI race. They wanted it to be quite short and clock...
Reports on the Austin, Texas, Guaranteed Income Pilot now available
The Urban Institute just published its 12-month findings for the Austin Guaranteed Income Pilot, plus a policy recommendations memo for the Austin City Council, which is seeking to understand how direct cash can assist in addressing the city’s housing affordability...
