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Discussion on the future of UBI trials
Picture credit to: iStock The start of the longest and largest Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiment in Kenya and the approaching end of the trial in Finland spark a new discussion among experts on the effects of ‘no-strings attached’ money transfers. ...
United Kingdom: Study suggests that welfare conditionality does more harm than good
The Welfare Conditionality (WelCond) project recently released a report on how people receiving benefits in the UK experience welfare conditionality within a social security system. Welfare conditionality is where a person's eligibility for benefits is dependent on...
BIEN Congress 2018: release of a revised conference program
The 2018 BIEN Congress, held in Tampere on 24-26 August, has released its revised conference program. In addition to a wide variety of panels and papers covering recent academic and policy discussions on basic income, the program features a series of exciting plenary...
International: Obama is portrayed in the media like a basic income supporter
Barack Obama. Credit to: CNBC. Despite having failed to actually endorse basic income, for the second time, international media is portraying Barack Obama as a supporter. For instance, the Trumpet, a news depot that “seeks to show how current events are...
CHICAGO, US: City Considers Resolution to Investigate Basic Income Pilot
Alderman Ameya Pawar has proposed a taskforce to examine a trial of a $500 monthly cash grant along with a “smoothing” of the Earned Income Tax Credit.
Leonid Bershidsky: “Obama and Bezos could make basic income work”
Jeff Bezos. Picture credit to: Evening Standard Leonid Bershidsky, in this article, posted on the 18th of July, says that the best way to enact basic income is to “persuade tech billionaires to fund universal pay plans”. Motivated by Obama’s latest speech on Mandela’s...
RUSSIA: Basic Income Conference organized in Russia
Alexander Solovyev, Dimitriy Sarayev, Sergey Vladimirovich Khramov and Irina Soloveva This Basic Income Conference moto was “Let’s win poverty in Russia together!”, and it took place in Moscow on the 26th of June 2018. It was organized by the combined efforts...
Austria: Generation Grundeinkommen UBI movement starts pushing for a national referendum in Austria
Image credit to: Generation Grundeinkommen Austria’s Universal Basic Income (UBI) movement, the Generation Grundeinkommen, is calling all freedom-and-equality-loving pioneers to rally together for a national referendum. That is planned to start now and finish at the...
United Kingdom: The Citizens Basic Income Trust works on basic implementation policy
A working group has been set up by the Citizens Basic Income Trust (CIT), the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) affiliate in the United Kingdom, with the task of conceptualizing what a basic income policy might look like in the UK. The educational exercise came...
New Link: Basic Income Forum
Image credit to Amanda Wray. There is a new website dedicated to presenting the case for basic income. It features useful information and resources directed to decision makers, journalists, academics, politicians and, more generally, anyone interested in...
