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Alex Gray: “This is our chance to completely redefine the meaning of work”
By: Rebecca Warne This article by Alex Gray summarizes a presentation given by historian Rutger Bregman at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, January 2019. Bregman would like to see ‘work’ redefined as ‘activity which adds value to...
Basic Income discussion in the Basque Parliament
On 28th September 2018, the Elkarrekin Podemos party registered an initiative in the Basque Parliament to organise a parliamentary discussion in order to study the effects of robotisation and digitalization, distribution of employment, and Basic Income. This...
International: Rutger Bregman: He is saying out loud what the majority of people is thinking
Rutger Bregman at Davos (2019). Picture credit to: World Economic Forum Rutger Bregman has been hitting the numbers the past few weeks. After a controversial participation at Davos, at the end of January, he went on for a controversial interview on Fox News that never...
UBI Taiwan to discuss ‘key trends’ at international summit
The third annual UBI Taiwan international summit will be held in Taipei this month. This year’s theme is “Key Trends of the Next Generation,” focusing on technological development as well as growing income inequality.
Video: Charles Eisenstein’s view of Unconditional Basic Income, in a nutshell
Charles Eisenstein. Picture credit to: Resilience. Charles Eisenstein, author, thinker and true believer that a better world is possible, has spoken his mind about Unconditional Basic Income (UBI). For that purpose, he has recorded this short video. In...
Germany: The HartzPlus experiment is starting, and the basic income discussion is there to stay
Anna, 29 - Participant in the HartzPlus experiment in Berlin, Germany The HartzPlus experiment is starting in Germany this month. Previously summarized, the experiment will involve 250 welfare beneficiaries, subject to the Hartz IV welfare scheme. For three years, the...
India: Prem Das Rai: “Lazy people will be lazy people whether they get money or not”
Prem Das Rai (Wikipedia) The Morung Express newspaper has interviewed the sole Sikkim MP at Lok Sabha (central parliament in India), Prem Das Rai. On the 17th of February, excerpts of that interview were posted, where Rai clearly states that introducing a...
Basic Income Lab at Stanford University accepting applications for Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Application deadline is March 8, 2019.
Book Review: Undoing Work, Rethinking Community
Dr. James Chamberlain, of Mississippi State University's Department of Political Science and Public Administration, published Undoing Work, Rethinking Community in February 2018. Basic Income News previously published a book announcement, which lists other reviews of...
United States: Elizabeth Warren pushes for a universal child care policy in her presidential candidacy program
Elizabeth Warren. Picture credit to: Vox Childcare in America is amongst the highest in the world. For typical middle-class families (two working parents with two children), it sits at just about 30% of the family’s earnings, according to an OECD study...
