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GERMANY: Basic Income Party Set to Participate in National Elections
Bündnis Grundeinkommen (“Basic Income League”) has been officially recognized as political party in Germany.
Ipsos Group: Majorities in Poland, Germany, Mexico believe government should provide a UBI
Market research firm has released the results of an opinion poll of 9500 people in 12 countries.
Peter Joseph and David Pakman discuss UBI on The David Pakman Show
Peter Joseph, founder of The Zeitgeist Movement and author of the recent book “The New Human Rights Movement” discussed Universal Basic Income (UBI) with David Pakman on The David Pakman Show recently. The discussion begins at 17:08....
DEBATE: Is a Basic Income Better Than Welfare?
In May this year, Bryan Caplan debated with Karl Widerquist about Universal Basic Income (UBI) and Welfare at PublicSquare.net. Widerquist is associate professor at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service at Qatar and vice-chair of Basic Income Earth Network...
Netherlands: Basic Income petition in the Netherlands for people over 55 years old was signed more than 50000 times
Picture: credit to Radar. In the Netherlands, the program Radar started a petition to persuade the government to give a basic income for people over 55 years old as an experiment. While a pilot is required to go through with it, only 3% of people nowadays get a...
United States: Report from the 2nd San Francisco Basic Income Create-a-thon
Organized by the Universal Income Project, the goal of the Create-a-thon is to spread awareness and raise support for the idea of basic income. Forty people attended the weekend-long event in March, including filmmakers, artists, entrepreneurs, technologists,...
INDIA: Finance Ministry debating UBI proposal from Economic Survey
Arun Jaitley. Credit to: The Indian Express India’s Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, has commented on the nation’s most recent Economic Survey, tabled in Parliament on 31st January, 2017. He himself presented it, just before the day on which the Indian budget...
Call for Proposals for 10th International Basic Income Week
The 10th annual international Basic Income Week is September 18-24, 2017.
Louise Haagh appointed Chair of BIEN, Malcolm Torry as General Manager
For the first time, BIEN has a Chair and General Manager instead of Co-Chairs.
DENMARK: Political Party Alternativet discusses basic income at annual convention, creates working group
The Alternative Facts of Denmark’s Basic Income Movement: The green political party The Alternative has adopted basic income as an aspirational goal and established a working group to investigate a precise model and implementational strategy for the policy.
