Within the context of the wider Basic Income March buy...
Canada: People claim for basic income on the streets of Toronto
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Exporting the Alaska Model: An early version now available for free download
An early version of the book, Exporting the Alaska Model, is available for download for the first time. This is...
Free version of the book, “Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend: Examining its Suitability as a Model” available for the first time
An early version of a book, Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend: Examining its Suitability as a Model, is now available...
United States: Another unconditional cash-transfer pilot project is launched
It's called the Workers Strength Fund, and is financially and operationally backed by Commonwealth, Google.org, the...
Canada: Basic income proposed by more than half of Manitoba’s political parties
According to the latest data, 20,8% of Manitobans live below the poverty line. This is one of the highest rates of...
International: New basic income information hub, on the Internet
A new website was created, and just launched, to provide updated news and information about UBI (Unconditional Basic...
A Critical Poverty Eradication Experiment in Kenya
GiveDirectly formed a $30 million fund to benefit 20,000 Kenyans in the most important and thorough study about UBI in history
Mass extinction on the horizon: Is Universal Basic Income the answer?
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International Labour Organization: Universal Basic Income proposals in light of ILO standards – Key issues and global costing
Credit Picture: CC(Billy Wilson) The International Labour Organization published a paper investigating Universal Basic...
India: Farmers distress political response, explained
Indian farmer pouring fertilizer. Picture credit to: The National As indicated before, there is political movement in...
New Research Dispels Common Myths About Unconditional Cash Transfers
Credit Picture to: The Open University A new paper, “Myth-Busting? Confronting Six Common Perceptions about...
Canada: Canada’s Federal Government is assembling a National Advisory Council on Poverty
Picture credit to: Opportunity for All (Government of Canada) Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and...
Interview: Humans of Basic Income
Basic Income is a radically different and yet elegantly simple notion that has been around for decades: all citizens should have an income and be allowed to maintain their dignity, simply because they are citizens in a society that is prospering.
’21 Lessons for the 21st Century’ shows humanity’s challenges
What does the future hold, an unemployment ridden wasteland or a leisure based post-work society?
Unconditional Basic Income of All for All
Despite its pitfalls, an important merit can be attributed to capitalism: It has given us machinery, techniques, and knowledge that can now allow for the material comfort of all.
Annie Lowrey: New book “Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World”
In her recent work Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake...
Karl Widerquist’s list of Media Appearances
On this page, I attempt to keep an updated list of media appearances, big or small; basic income related or not;...
India: Muhammad Yunus says it’s time to introduce basic income
Muhammad Yunus. Picture credit to: Yunus negócios sociais (Brazil) Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Peace Nobel Prize...
SWITZERLAND: Filmmaker and Village Collaborate to Plan “Basic Income” Trial
Director Rebecca Panian and a team of research scientists are conferring with the town of Rheinau to launch a one-year program to resemble a community-wide basic income.
Economic Security for All: Questions about Chris Hughes’ Guaranteed Income Proposal
Hughes advocates what he calls a guaranteed income (GI) and is clear about how his proposal differs from a universal basic income (UBI). A UBI would periodically provide everyone with a certain amount of money without any means-test or work requirement. Hughes’ guaranteed income proposal has two provisions which distinguish it from a UBI: it is means-tested and it does have a work requirement.