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Johann Hari describes UBI as anti-depressant
Johann Hari, a successful non-fiction writer, has used his latest book, Lost Connections, to explore the topic of depression, looking at certain possible solutions to the debilitating condition. Although most traditional solutions for depression are individual and...
Bolivia: BONOSOL programme is 21 years old, this year
Image credit: La Razón. BONOSOL is a mandatory, non-contributory, central government social security program in Bolivia. It is unconditional in nature and started in 1997, having endured to this day, having risen more than 220% from 2008 through 2016. It...
BBC UBI Radio Programme
The BBC has made a half-hour radio programme exploring the current universal basic income (UBI) experiment taking place in Kenya. The programme was originally broadcast on 31th of March 2018, as part of the BBC World Service. The experiment, funded by American charity...
Scott Santens: “It’s Time for Technology to Serve all Humankind with Unconditional Basic Income”
Scott Santens published on Medium the transcription of a speech he wrote for a keynote session he presented in Sweden in 2017, with the title “It’s time for technology to serve all humankind with Unconditional Basic Income.” The speech revolves around the...
EUROPE: Universal Basic Income Europe at the EYE2018
Next week – 1 through the 3rd of June – Universal Basic Income Europe (UBIE) activists will be at the EYE2018 event, in Strasbourg. This event is an annual gathering of young Europeans at the European Parliament premises. There, they “come up with ideas for the future...
Italy, Rome 28th of May: The strength of basic income. Technological innovation, new welfare and experiments all around the world
On the the 28th of May, at 17h, Fondazione Basso hosts in via della Dogana Vecchia 5, in Rome, a book presentation and discussion titled “The strength of the basic income. Technological innovation, new welfare and experiments all around the world". The event will be...
United States: Presidential candidate Andrew Yang speaks on Merion West
Andrew Yang has already made his name known by leading a presidential campaign which defends the implementation of basic income. Now he extends that with an interview for the Merion West journal, a news outlet particularly associated with low biases. In that...
France: The Gironde region’s path to a basic income experiment
Since the beginning of 2017 that basic income has been on the political agenda in Gironde, a southwestern region in France. At that time, several Administration task groups worked together, from December 2016 up to February 2017 to reflect on the possibility of...
Cryptocurrencies and Basic Income: What is SwiftDemand?
Cryptocurrencies have taken over the news in recent years and I'm sure some readers have even looked at a Bitcoin Trader review, looking to see if it's something they should invest in. But outside of trading, not many people understand the potential applications of...
Spain: Red Renta Básica offers two scholarships for the Interuniversity Postgraduate course in Analysis of Capitalism and Transformative Policies
The Red Renta Básica association (official section of the Basic Income Earth Network) announces the offer of two scholarships, covering part of the costs to start the Interuniversity Postgraduate course in Analysis of Capitalism and Transformative Policies (from the...
