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Michael Howard: “We have two years to avoid climate disaster. A carbon fee and dividend will help”
Michael Howard. Picture credit to: University of Maine Michael Howard, a professor of Philosophy and Political economy at the University of Maine, who also specializes in environmental issues, has published an article on how a carbon fee and dividend might help...
International: Basic Income Earth Conference 2019 announcement (call for papers)
The Call for Papers for the 19th Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Congress, in Hyderabad, India, has been released. From the 22nd through the 25th of August 2019, scholars, community organizers and artists are invited to make presentations pertaining to any of the...
Book Announcement: A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens
Karl Widerquist has published a new book, titled A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens. It focuses on the actuality of basic income experiments, and presents the following summary: At least six different...
Canada: Canada’s Federal Government is assembling a National Advisory Council on Poverty
Picture credit to: Opportunity for All (Government of Canada) Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development for the Canadian Federal Government, has launched a call for applications to assemble a so-called National Advisory Council on...
United States: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mentions basic income at a Netroots Nation event
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Picture credit to: The Daily Beast. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a young Democrat MP who has recently included basic income in a Resolution about climate change (coined the “Green New Deal”), has also mentioned it at a Netroots Nation...
PODCAST: Floyd Marinescu talks about basic income on Canadian CBC Radio
Floyd Marinescu, a Canadian entrepreneur who describes himself as “an angel investor, author, humanitarian, and homosapien”, is featured in this interview, on CBC Radio, which has been condensed into a Whiteboard animation. Floyd has been a long-time defender of basic...
FRANCE / INTERNATIONAL: ARTE has launched a documentary interactive series on basic income
ARTE, the franco-german TV channel, dedicated to cultural content and dissemination, has launched (on the 20th November 2018), an interactive documentary on work, money and basic income, named “Gagner sa vie” (“Earn a living”). Over seven episodes transmitted...
Canada: Ontario’s basic income experiment ended, but the ground is fertile for more pilots
Jean-Yves Duclos. Picture credit to: The Star. After the cancellation of the Ontario basic income experiment, country-wide discussions about the issue continues in Canada as the Federal Government approaches the policy, although a direct intervention in Ontario is...
Sweden: MP Rebecka Le Moine introduces a motion in Parliament for the investigation of basic income
Rebecka Le Moine. Picture credit to: SLU (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) The Member of the Swedish Parliament (MP), and Green Party representative Rebecka Le Moine has submitted, on the 30th of November 2018, a motion for the deep investigation of...
Ukraine: Another basic income experiment is being developed in Ukraine
Picture, from left to right: Artem Demidenko (sociologist, psychologist), Nataliya Protasova (Board Chair of Basic Income Ukraine organization), Artem Kuharenko (Podolsk village council), Kateryna Drei (Head of Basic Income Ukraine...