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Canada: Cross-party MP committee recommends the federal government to look into basic income
House of Commons, in Canada Earlier this month, a cross-party MP ‘commons' committee released an internal report urging the present liberal government to take a serious look into "new types of income support "that do not depend upon someone having a job"". The nature...
United States: The National Academy of Social Insurance investigates the implementation of basic income
The National Academy of Social Insurance recently (April 2019) published a paper where the idea of implementing a relatively small basic income ($200-$400 per month, at least initially) has been explored by authors William Arnone, Peter Barnes, Renée Landers and...
United States: Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib backs up basic income bill for the United States
Rashida Tlaib. Picture credit to: HuffPost. On the 30th of May, 2019, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib hosted the 13th Congressional District Women and Families Roundtable with community members and advocates from across the Redford district (Michigan) (1). The...
UCL Institute for Global Prosperity issues report on Universal Basic Services
According to a recent report (May 2019) by UCL Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP), guaranteeing universal basic services (UBS), such as health care, education, child care, transportation and digital information, would be more beneficial to low income groups than...
World Health Organization’s High-level Conference on Health Equity
The World Health Organization (WHO) is organizing a High-level Conference on Health Equity, happening on the 11–13th June 2019, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Hosted by the Government of Slovenia, it will provide evidence and information on the solutions that can be...
New book by Louise Haagh: The case for Universal Basic Income
Louise Haagh, presently Reader at the University of York, and Chair of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), just released a new book, through Polity: The case for Universal Basic Income. A summary is featured on the editor’s page: Advocated (and attacked) by...
United Kingdom: Another report concludes implementing UBI in the UK is feasible, affordable, and very progressive
Apart from experimental designs testing basic income-like policies, in small scales, theoretical evidence keeps mounting, showing that basic income is not a pipe dream, but a practical reality within our reach. Published earlier this year, a new report issued by the...
Canada: Report “Signposts to Success” shows how beneficial the cancelled Ontario basic income experiment was being
The reading of results from basic income type of experiments is, apparently, dependent on who is reading them. The Ontario present government officials did not think, for instance, that there were particular advantages or benefits from pursuing with the Ontario basic...
Europe: Some European Parliament candidates respond to a UBI questionnaire
Just before the latest European Parliament (EP) elections, held on the 23-26th of May 2019, the Unconditional Basic Income Europe (UBIE) activist group sent out a questionnaire to be answered by candidates, on the subject of basic income. The questions asked for their...
Brazil: Small city in Brazil implements a modest, partial basic income
Maricá at a distance. Original article by Eduardo Suplicy Last Saturday, May 25th 2019, an event took place in Maricá, a city on the coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro, where the mayor Fabiano Horta (representant from PT, Partido dos Trabalhadores), vice mayor...
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