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Kela Conference on Social Security 2019 – Equality and wellbeing through sustainable social security system
Kela Conference 2019 will occur on the 10th December 2019, between 9.00 and 16.30h, at Kela's Main office building in Helsinki. It will be a gathering of experts on social protection, and will include four main themes - Investing in the future, Reforming social...
Canada: Prince Edward Island Activists Call for Basic Income Guarantee in Lead Up to Canadian Election
Ann Wheatley (from the PEI Working Group for a Livable Income). Picture credit to: CBC Despite the dismantling of Ontario’s Basic Income pilot after the election of the Conservative Party in the 2018 provincial election, basic income continues to play a...
Hungary: Budapest’s new mayor sheds a light on Órban’s “iliberal democracy”
Gergely Karácsony. Picture credit to: Magyar Hang It’s Budapest, October 2019, and there’s a new mayor in town. Gergely Karácsony is his name, and has physically taken office on October 17th, arriving at Budapest City Hall on a simple city bike, instead of a couched...
United States: Basic Income becomes more prominent at the Democratic Party 4th Debate
It seems that it is no longer just Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang who is speaking about basic income (his version of it) at Democratic Party Debates. And although basic income is still a minor issue debated at these events, it is relevant to acknowledge...
International: Basic Income supportive economists are awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics
Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee. Picture credit: dailyO Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer were awarded the Economics Nobel Prize this year. That alone would not represent a huge novelty, given the standard these professionals and scholars have set in...
Canada: Political candidates in Thunder Bay discuss Basic Income
Basic Income seems to be a hot issue to debate at the local elections run in Thunder Bay (Ontario, Canada). Ever since the cancellation of the Ontario basic income pilot project, by the Doug Administration, discussions over basic income type of policies have been...
Canada: Green Party is more inclined to creating jobs rather than financing a basic income
Elisabeth May. Picture credit to: Mission City Record. Elisabeth May, Canada’s Green Party leader has spoken about a “robot tax” which, according to the party’s Platform, focuses on large companies (exempting slam businesses) laying off employees due to...
Estonia: Governmental officials are convinced basic income is not even worth a feasibility study
The Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu) As reported before, an Estonian collective of basic income activists, led by Jaanus Nurmoja, delivered a petition to the Social Affairs Committee (SAC) of the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu), calling for the investigation of...
The documentary “UBI, our right to live” is now available on YouTube
Credit Picture CC (Generation Grundeinkommen, Stefan Bohrer) The film, directed by Alvaro Orùs, is now available on Pressenza’s youtube channel. The 41 minutes long documentary focuses on Universal Basic Income (UBI), retracing its history, explaining its rationale,...
United States: Air Force Veteran talks about his experience with basic income
A United States Air Force Veteran (1) is getting 1300 US$/month. He has been receiving this money from the Veteran Administration (VA) for almost three years. The transfer is unconditional, and is for life so, in a sense, it is like a basic income (as in defined at...
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