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Scotland’s First Minister Announces Basic Income Experiments
Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland, announced that a number of basic income experiments in her country will be funded by the national government. The local councils concerned – these being Glasgow, Edinburgh, Fife and North Ayreshire – had already committed...
Hillel Steiner, “A philosopher’s take on Global Basic Income”
Hillel Steiner. Credit to: Festival 800. Hillel Steiner, Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Manchester and writing on Know It All says that an unconditional basic income (UBI) funded by land value taxation (LVT) may create consensus...
Unconditional Basic Income Europe announces meeting prior to BIEN Congress
UBIE will be holding a meeting in Lisbon on Sunday, September 24. All conference attendees may join its afternoon workshops.
BBC de-growth video recommends basic income
In a recent video released by the BBC, anthropologist Dr Jason Hickel argues for a form of planned de-growth which includes the provision of basic income. Hickel is employed by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), which for several years has...
UNITED STATES: Hillary Clinton regrets not proposing Basic Income during her 2016 campaign
Hillary Clinton just released a new memoir, What Happened, about her 2016 campaign for US President. In the memoir, she claims to regret not embracing a type of Basic Income proposal, which she dubbed “Alaska for America”, as part of her platform. Clinton...
World Prepares to Celebrate 10th Basic Income Week
The 10th annual international Basic Income Week will be September 18 to 24.
Roosevelt Institute Report: Modeling the Macroeconomic Effects of UBI
On August 29, 2017, the Roosevelt Institute released a report where researchers Michalis Nikiforos, Marshall Steinbaum, Gennaro Zezza model the macroeconomic effects of implementing Basic Income. (Marshall Steinbaum is a Research Director and a Fellow at the Roosevelt...
KENYA: GiveDirectly’s Guaranteed Monthly Income Expands to 200 Villages Fall 2017
Pictured: Kenyan village to receive GiveDirectly's guaranteed basic income Source: Nichole Sibecki for NPR GiveDirectly offers to give every adult in a Kenyan village a guaranteed basic income of 27,258 Kenyan Shillings- or 264 US dollars- per year for the next 12...
Financial Times: “Why Facebook should pay us a Basic Income” by John Thornhill
On August 7th, veteran writer and Innovation Editor at the Financial Times, John Thornhill, wrote an article entitled “Why Facebook should pay us a Basic Income”. In the article, Thornhill argues that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg should put his money where his mouth is...
Dom Galeonand Abby Norman, “Universal Basic Income Could Become a Reality Thanks to this Technology”
In the last few years, cryptocurrencies have been proliferating with people searching for the best crypto to invest in as well as how they can add to their portfolio. Some have even been created specifically for Basic Income. According to Dom Galeon and Abby Norman,...
