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Germany: The first basic income experiment in Germany will start in 2019
Basic income is going to be tested in Germany. The setup of the experiment will be similar to the one now ending in Finland, which means there will be an unconditional cash transfer to 250 randomly selected people among those already receiving benefits (250 others...
Conference: “The Great Transformation: On the Future of Modern Societies”
The Concluding Conference of the German Research Foundation-funded research team “Landnahme, Acceleration, Activation. On the (De)-Stabilisation of Modern Growth Societies” and the Second Regional Conference of the German Sociological Association will be held in Jena...
Ukraine: Basic income experiment has started being prepared in Ukraine
The City of Pavlograd, in Ukraine, has decided to perform a basic income experiment, in order to measure the effect (on the individual level) of unconditional cash transfers on the labor market, objective and subjective well-being, financial health, changes in mental...
Events: Nature 2.0 – The Future is Abundant
Nature 2.0 will hold a series of events in Berlin and Amsterdam, exploring blockchain technology in preparation for their participation as one of the tracks at the biggest blockchain hackaton in the world: the DutchChain Hackaton 2019 in Groningen....
Interview: Humans of Basic Income
Basic Income is a radically different and yet elegantly simple notion that has been around for decades: all citizens should have an income and be allowed to maintain their dignity, simply because they are citizens in a society that is prospering.
United States: Democrats add basic income to a climate change addressing plan
It started on Tuesday, 13th of November 2018, with a 200 large committee of environmental activists (Sunrise Movement) crowding Nancy Pelosi's office premises at the Capitol Building. The activists called upon Pelosi, the Democrats House speaker, to push for a real,...
China: Macao’s Wealth Partaking Scheme expands
Fernando Chui Sai On. Picture credit to: Plataforma Macau. The Chief Executive of Macao (on of the Special Administrative Regions (SAR) in China), Fernando Chui Sai On, has announced on the 15th of November 2018, that the Wealth Partaking Scheme (WPS) has been...
Europe: Green European Journal Asked Experts, Activists, and Politicians About Basic Income
Credit Picture: Green European Journal 2018 The Green European Journal launched the Green Observatory on Basic Income, asking to experts in a series of interviews about the status of universal basic income (UBI) in the political discourse of their country, and...
VIDEO: Basic Income Visuals goes online
A new site on Youtube collects and presents short videos and animations about basic income, dubbed “Basic Income Visuals”. This website has been created by Philippe Chabot, a creative and basic income activist from Montreal, Canada. List of contributor videos include...
Douglas Rushkoff Warns That Universal Basic Income Is Just Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam
Credit picture to: CC(Paul May) In an article published on Medium, “Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Vallaey’s latest Scam”, Douglas Rushkoff maintains that “The plan is no gift to the masses, but a tool for our further enslavement”. Rushkoff was once a supporter of...
