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COPENHAGEN: Danish newspaper hosts Guy Standing on basic income
More information about the event with Standing, “Borgerløn – Utopi eller Nødvendighed?” (“Basic Income: Utopia or Necessity?”), is available on the website of Politiken Live.
Portugal: Pan-European screening of Free Lunch Society on Tuesday 26th September BIEN Conference in Lisbon
The documentary Free Lunch Society will be screened on Tuesday 26th September, at 7:30 pm, during Basic Income Earth Network Conference in Lisbon. This will take place at ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management – and will be followed by a debate between basic...
UNITED STATES: Joe Biden believes that jobs are the future, rather than basic income
Joe Biden. Credit to: GQ. Joe Biden, Obama’s ex-vice president, is confident that the reinforcement of the job-centered culture is the answer to the challenges already affecting work marketplaces in the US, as written in his blog at the Biden Institute. He...
China: Association for Promotion of UBI established
Zhang Chao and Gan Lin, high school seniors from the Chinese province of Zhejiang and founded UBIForALL to promote basic income in mainland China.
Jordan Peterson’s remarks on UBI
Jordan Peterson, cultural critic, psychologist, and member of the Self Authoring online service, gave his remarks on Universal Basic Income. His concerns seem to be largely drawn from a similar issue critics have with the idea, primarily in the face of leisure time:...
GERMANY: Basic Income party Bündnis Grundeinkommen prepares for participation in upcoming election
Bündnis Grundeinkommen gathering at Brandenburg gate. Credit to: Enno Schmidt and Bündnis Grundeinkommen The Bündnis Grundeinkommen, Germany’s political party campaigning on the single issue of introducing a basic income in the country, has held an open air...
United States: Philosophy class examines universal Basic Income whose time has come
A Stanford University class –available on a podcast replays the 1970s Manitoba, Canada, experiment called “mincome,” on the way to rejoicing in Universal Basic Income. In the U.S., Silicon Valley entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, who according to some is...
TruthOut Interview with Jurgen De Wispelaere
Jurgen De Wispelaere, a research fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath was interviewed on August 7th by Truthout, a nonprofit web-based news and commentary site whose aim is to provide “a platform for transformative ideas, through in-depth...
Dates announced for 2018 North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress
The 2018 NABIG Congress will be May 24-27 in Hamilton, Ontario.
NEW BOOK: Call for authors for Palgrave Macmillan Basic Income handbook (edited by Malcolm Torry)
Palgrave Macmillan is planning to publish An International Handbook on Basic Income, which it intends to be a definitive guide to the current state of the debate.
