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.
United States: the district of Columbia releases a basic income policy analysis
District of columbia Lincoln memorial Washington monument. Credit to: History Channel. The district of Columbia...
No Time for Austerity (from 2011)
This essay was originally published on Basic Income News in December 2011. I can’t believe the news. We are in the...