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News on the global Basic Income debate
PORTUGAL: Basic Income Gets a Boost of Interest from the Media
After the 17th BIEN Conference in Lisbon, Portugal had a boost of interest from the media on Basic Income. There were many articles in the mainstream media, TV, Radio and Newspapers and the debate is continuing. The main Portuguese public TV station, RTP 1, had a...
EU Minimum Income Overhaul
The Employment Committee of the European Union (EU) has called for all member states to provide a minimum income, or to upgrade existing minimum income schemes. A minimum income, unlike universal basic income (UBI), is not distributed to all citizens. In most European...
Correction of Article “World Economic Forum recognizes Madhya Pradesh basic income pilot studies”
The case study was one of multiple entires *deemed eligible* for an award in the “best practice in governance” category: no award has been declared.
Jay Hammond, “Diapering the Devil: How Alaska Helped Staunch Befouling by Mismanaged Oil Wealth”
Jay Hammond Jay Sterner Hammond (July 21, 1922 – August 2, 2005) was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the fourth Governor of Alaska from 1974 to 1982. Hammond was born in Troy, New York and served as a Marine Corps fighter pilot in World...
United States: CQ releases basic income research compilation
Congressional Quarterly (CQ) has published a research paper on basic income (BI) that explains its universal popularity due to automation growth estimates worldwide. The CQ Researcher covers everything from Scott Santens’ crowdfunded self-financing mechanism to U.S....
AUSTRALIA: Labor MP rejects UBI as solution to technological unemployment in new book
Jim Chalmers. Credit to: Financial Review. Jim Chalmers, a Labor Party MP in Australia, claims that basic income, a concept gaining traction in Australia, is a “backward step”. His concerns focus on perceived increases in inequality and affordability issues....
IRELAND: Budget Analysis Seminar on Wednesday 11th October
Social Justice Ireland examines the fairness of seven different options for tax changes in their new publication released on Wednesday 4th of October. The new Irish Budget will be announced next Tuesday, 10th October, and the Social Justice Ireland analysis shows that...
UNITED STATES: Y Combinator releases proposal for expanded study of basic income
Silicon Valley’s Y Combinator has concluded its feasibility study in Oakland and released a draft proposal for a large-scale randomized control trial of basic income in the United States.
Call for Papers for 2018 BIEN Congress in Tampere, Finland (August 23-26)
The 18th Congress of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), Basic Income and the New Universalism: Rethinking the Welfare State in the 21st Century, will take place August 23-26, 2018, at the University of Tampere in Finland.
AUSTRALIA: Alfred Deakin Institute Policy Forum – The Future of Work and Basic Income Options for Australia
Jon Altman and Eva Cox. Credit to: Alfred Deakin Institute (Deakin University, Melbourne) The Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, hosted a forum on the 17th and 18th August discussing the concept of a universal basic income. ...
