An article by Sarah Holder published by Bloomberg reports that preliminary data on over 20 guaranteed income pilot programs shows that they have been a lifeline across the US — especially for parents of color. Click here to read the article.

Malcolm Torry, BIEN Treasurer, has a new book, Basic Income—What, Why, and How? Aspects of the Global Basic Income Debate just published by Palgrave Macmillan. The book analyzes the global Basic Income debate which is now widespread, and is based on conference papers,...

The 21st annual Congress of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) was hosted in Brisbane, Australia, by the University of Queensland's Centre for Policy Futures from 26-28 September, in conjunction with the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, BIEN Australia,...

An article by Sigal Samuel entitled "Everywhere basic income has been tried, in one map Which countries have experimented with basic income — and what were the results?" is now available online. To read the article click here.

The confluence of multiple contemporary crises has made a Basic Income an achievable goal and made BIEN more important than ever. Discussions and policy debates about Basic Income are taking place in countries across the world.  This is an incredible opportunity for...

In September, 2022, the Economic Security Project (ESP) announced that it had hit a milestone of 100 guaranteed income pilots announced nationwide. See a two-minute video celebrating this achievement here. In 2017, ESP helped launch pilots in Stockton, CA and Jackson,...

The Washington Post Magazine published an article by Megan Greenwell on guaranteed income pilots and support for UBI in the United States on 24 October 2022. You can read the article here.