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UNITED STATES: Member of Congress from Minnesota Keith Ellison endorses Basic Income
Keith Ellison. Credit to: The Boston Globe. Keith Ellison, a member of the US Congress from Minnesota and Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee, has expressed an endorsement for basic income on Twitter. His tweet posted on the 17th August 2017, is...
United States: Standing, in Moon magazine interview, says nearly half of world population misled by right-wing politicians
Guy Standing. Credit to: Lighthouse. Guy Standing, co-founder of Bien and a University of London professor, in an interview for the Moon magazine says people with a precarious future are preyed upon by right-wing politicians. Neo-liberal economic policies,...
Slack CEO endorses UBI on Twitter
Successful entrepreneur Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of online photo-sharing application Flickr and creator of the popular business communications system Slack, has spoken out on Twitter in favour of universal basic income. On 4 August 2017, Butterfield stated that...
HAMILTON, NZ: BIEN co-founder Guy Standing to address economic precariousness among Māori
University of Waikato researchers will present “Precarious Māori Households in Austere Times,” followed by a talk by Standing.
The Netherlands: Dutch Labour ministers reject Basic Income as part of solution for older unemployment in the Netherlands
Lodewijk Asscher and Jetta Klijnsma (composition). Credit to: Wikipedia. Lodewijk Asscher and Jetta Klijnsma, the Minister and the Secretary, respectively, for the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment in the Netherlands, have dismissed the idea that a...
VIDEO: Interview with Mike Howard (USBIG) by Olaf Michael Ostertag (Die Linke)
In an online interview, Olaf Michael Ostertag, a member of the German socialist party Die Linke , speaks with Professor Michael Howard, co-ordinator of USBIG in the U.S. and Punita who immigrated from India to Germany a decade ago. While Michael Howard has long been...
Luke Kingma (for Futurism): “Universal Basic Income – the answer to automation?”
Futurism reported on automation, robots, and universal basic income through the provision of a chart-article. Some of the information summarized by the chart includes that fact that as there are 4.73 robots working per 100 human workers in South Korea. The global...
Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes and Labor Expert Natalie Foster on Basic Income
In a recent live interview, televised online and hosted by KCET’s Town Hall, Chris Hughes and Natalie Foster answered questions from viewers about Universal Basic Income. Chris Hughes is the co-founder of Facebook, and Natalie Foster is an expert on technology and...
GERMANY: “Basic Income Café” provides center for UBI-related activities in Berlin
The tiny coffee shop also houses a basic income library and serves as a center of discussion.
Universal Basic Income Examined by Futurism Blog
The Futurism blog, which describes itself as reporting on “the breakthrough technologies and scientific discoveries that will shape humanity’s future”, has published a post on basic income as a response to increasing automation of the workplace. Although universal...
