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Note: This project does not meet BIEN's definition of basic income. The 2024 Denver Basic Income Project Impact Report is a comprehensive look at how the project has transformed lives and empowered over 800 individuals experiencing homelessness. To date, DBIP has...

As more countries are facing a secular stagnation and as it is becoming clear that it is unrealistic to hope to increase total economic output (measured as the gross domestic product GDP)) without further worsening the environmental crisis, a new question emerges: how...

Photo by Amber Weir via Unsplash Workshop Program: Designing a Basic Income Pilot for Australia – Ethics, Implementation & Evaluation Challenges Location: Online (Zoom)Date: Friday, December 6Time: 9:00 AM - 1:15 PM Overview: Pilots, trials, and...

The Palestinian Economic Policy Institute in Ramallah had asked me to draw up a proposal for an Emergency Basic Income, which I presented in Ramallah earlier this year. To access that paper, click here.

Recent concern about the uncertain impacts of artificial intelligence has fueled renewed discussion of universal basic income (UBI). As in the past, much of the conversation depicts UBI as a policy expedient aimed at relieving the adverse effects (presumably...

The FRIBIS Annual Conference 2024 (7 – 9 October), held at the University of Freiburg, was titled "Towards the development of a full UBI? Perspectives on partial approaches in different welfare systems." The conference brought together over 40 speakers and 79...

UBI4ALL, a pioneering organization committed to advancing the concept of Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) worldwide, is excited to announce its 7th Basic Income raffle. On November 24, 2024, UBI4ALL will award a life-changing €9,600 per year (€800 per month) to a...

 UBI in the Heartlands of Neoliberalism published by openDemocracy Part 1 | Getting on with it UBI in the US ‘not just an idea’ – it’s achievableShafeka Hasash, Economic Security Project 'Hope goes a long way': BI as a lifeline for ex-prisonersKevin Scott, Community...