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News on the global Basic Income debate
United States: New (online) UBI calculator
Go to ubicalculator.com and get an ideia of how universal basic income plans, as presented up to this moment in time (for the United States reality), affect you and/or your family. Given individual or household income, plus a few other datapoints, such as family...
Robert Stayton: “Solar Dividends”
Undertitled "How solar energy can generate a basic income for everyone on Earth", this new book by Robert Stayton rides on an apparently radical idea: that all people on Earth can earn a basic income, financed from the generation of solar electricity alone. This comes...
United States: Presidential candidate Bill de Blasio chooses a Federal Jobs Guarantee over a UBI
Bill de Blasio. Picture credit to: UPI. Bill de Blasio, New York City mayor and Democratic Party candidate for the United States 2020 presidential elections, is firmly against Universal Basic Income (UBI). According to him, UBI is “woefully inadequate”, fearing it...
United States: Interview with Jonathan Herzog, Democratic Candidate for Congress in New York’s 10th District
Jonathan Herzog is a Democratic candidate currently running for US Congress in New York’s 10th District on a platform of Universal Basic Income.
Plunder of the Commons: a manifesto for sharing public wealth
On wednesday, the 2nd October 2019, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm, professor Guy Standing will be presenting his new book "Plunder of the Commons: a manifesto for sharing public wealth" at the London School of Economics (LSE) Joining him will be Caroline Lucas (MP for...
Canada: Research on advantages of Canada Child Benefit
New research on The Canada Child Benefit
United States: Another unconditional cash-transfer pilot project is launched
It's called the Workers Strength Fund, and is financially and operationally backed by Commonwealth, Google.org, the Rockefeller Foundation and Prudential Financial. This new organization is unconditionally giving $1000 to 500 (randomly selected) precarious workers...
Event: International Basic Income Week 2019
International Basic Income Week is starting on 16th September. Posters and flyers can be found here. This year, there will be 3 worldwide SYNCHRONISED Basic Income Week actions: Facebook Profile Pictures Overlay your Facebook profile picture or add a frame 2nd...
Arab Humanist: The Necessity of Basic Income
Nohad A Nassif recently self-published her first book "Arab Humanist: The Necessity of Basic Income". It is an unashamedly autobiographical story, which talks about how she ran away from her family while living in Austin, Texas, and what happened to her when she...
Book announcement: Financing Basic Income
This new book from Richard Pereira (and contributors Albert Jörimann (BIEN Switzerland) and Gary Flomenhoft (University of Vermont)) argues that basic income at a decent level is, in fact, affordable. The contributors approach the topic from the perspectives of three...
BIEN Congresses
The 24th BIEN CONGRESS in Maricá & Niterói – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 27-29 August 2025
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BIEN2024 was August 29–31 (Pictures and more coming soon)