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LINK: Tom Minogue Hastings website
Tom Minogue Hastings. Credit to: Free Folk University Tom Minogue Hastings has been promoting Universal Basic Income (UBI) in the United States. He has been doing this with a popular website devoted to UBI, also appearing on the USBIG (U.S. Basic Income...
Anna Dent: “From utopia to implementation” – (full dissertation)
Credit to: Flickr. Anna Dent, M.Sc., published a Master’s dissertation entitled “From Utopia to Implementation: How Basic Income has progressed from radical idea to legitimate policy solution.” In it, Dent explores how “utopian and marginal” ideas such as basic income...
USA: Many in Silicon Valley Support Universal Basic Income. Now the California Democratic Party Does, Too
Credit to: Wikipedia. The Democratic Party in California is supporting Universal Basic Income (UBI). It is now public that people like Elon Musk have supported the initiative, mainly justified through job losses due to automation. However, this of course leads to...
Italy: I Love Dignity and Guaranteed Income
The Network Rete dei Numeri Pari organized the event called "I love dignity. Guaranteed minimum income. What it is and how to build an instrument against inequality, mafia and poverty" in the past 14th and 15th of February, 2018. Among many speakers, Sandro...
New book: Beyond the Income for Inclusion, for a guaranteed Income as a Basic Right.
The Basic Income Network Italy has published a new Quaderno per il Reddito (Income Notebook) N°8 - February 2018. The title of this new publication is "Beyond the Income for Inclusion, for a guaranteed income as a basic right" and hosts, in 144 pages, twelve italian...
New Book: Basic income, the whole world talks about it. Experiences, proposals and experiments.
Basic income, the whole world talks about it. Experiences, proposals and experiments this is the title of a new book by Sandro Gobetti and Luca Santini, with a preface by Andrea Fumagalli, published by GoWare Edizioni (March 2018). Description At the dawn of a new...
International: Being paid for data
Credit to: The Blue Diamond Gallery. Who does data belong to? As data becomes an even bigger part of society, it's a very important question to ask. A lot of businesses collect their own data then go to someone like JustUnderstandingData, a data engineering...
RSA suggests stepping stone to UBI
The UK-based Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has released a report suggesting a Universal Basic Opportunity Fund (UBOF) as a stepping-stone to a full universal basic income (UBI). The suggested UBOF would consist of £5000 a...
Taipei to hold second annual UBI Asia Pacific conference
The second annual Basic Income Asia Pacific conference will be held in Taipei on March 17 and 18. This year’s theme is “Asia Pacific’s Economic Future.”
New Book: Daniel Raventós’ and Julie Wark’s “Against Charity”
Daniel Raventós and Julie Wark have just published a new book titled “Against Charity”. Both authors argue for an unconditional universal basic income above the poverty line and paid for by progressive taxation to both eradicate poverty and empower recipients—the...
