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International: Basic Income Earth Conference 2019 announcement
India Network for Basic Income (INBI) will host the 19th BIEN Congress in Hyderabad, India, from 22nd to 25th of August 2019. At a time when the welfare state is undergoing major crisis, all around the world, and the discussion around basic income is gaining...
United States: The National League of Cities launches a report for piloting UBI in cities
City Leaders attendees in L.A. at City Summit. Credit to: NLC. The National League of Cities (NLC), an organization serving the interests of 19000 cities, towns and villages across the United States territory, has released, in a partnership with the Stanford...
France: One conference on basic income a month, until June 2019
The L’Ecole des Hautes Estudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Social Sciences University in France) is organizing and promoting a doctoral series of conferences about basic income. This series of events started on the 10th of October 2018, on a venue at the CEVIPOF...
VIDEO: Felix Salmon brings shock while defending basic income live on Fox Business
Felix Salmon (on Fox Business) In a television program, live on Fox Business aired on the 12th of Setember, British ex-citizen (now a citizen of the United States) Felix Salmon shocked his TV host, Stuart Varney, and his pundit colleagues on the set (Ashley Webster...
United States: The Magnolia Mother’s Trust innovates and starts a basic income-like experiment with African American women
Picture credit to: The Black Detour. The Magnolia Mother's Trust is an initiative generated by the Springboard to Opportunities NGO, having been referred to at a recent article on the production of the documentary "Inherent Good". This initiative aims at supplying...
A Partial Basic Income as a Response to our Society Widening Inequality
Picture credit: David Pacey In an article on Left Foot Forward, Karen Buck MP and Declan Gaffney argue for a partial Basic Income as a more practical option than Universal Basic Income (UBI). With all the different expectations pinned to UBI, arising from its...
United States: “Inherent Good” documentary starts fund-raising campaign
“Do we trust each other”? That is the ultimate question the new documentary named “Inherent Good” ends up asking. This film project, still ongoing, aims at exploring the Universal Basic Income (UBI) idea, particularly in small in-land communities in the United...
Andrew Yang is the anti-Trump candidate
If there is one presidential candidate who is the complete opposite of Donald Trump, it is Andrew Yang.
The linguistic scam of Italy’s ‘citizenship income’
Roberto Ciccarelli (journalist, writer and member of the Basic Income Italy) has published an article on the proposal of the Italian government's citizenship income.In the article Ciccarelli talks about the poverty benefit misleadingly called a “citizenship income”,...
Hungary: Basic income related activity in Hungary
In spite of its right-wing government, spearheaded by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, there is already a seed of activity for basic income advocacy in Hungary. A recently formed group, named First Hungarian Universal Basic Income Association, has an active social media...
