by Jenna van Draanen | Jun 14, 2015 | News
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
BI News has already confirmed that Naheed Nenshi, the mayor of Canadian city Calgary, supports basic income and has vowed to take leadership on it. Newly released articles suggest that there is support for basic income from other parts of the province of Alberta including from the Vibrant Communities Calgary agency and the Momentum agency where the current finance minister of the province was formerly employed. Sources have speculated that Alberta’s Finance Minister, Joe Ceci, might be open to exploring a negative income tax for the province.
See our previous post on Naheed Nenshi’s support for basic income here
For other articles on Nenshi’s commitment to basic income and the change he is driving in Alberta see here. The article connecting Nenshi and Ceci can be seen here.
by Andre Coelho | Apr 16, 2015 | News
A 24 year old econometrician from the Netherlands, named Sjir Hoeijmakers, is also a leading basic income activist. He has already written a motion defending basic income implementation and delivered it in Congress, and also an article about basic income which got published in Times. Has been speaking and lecturing around the Netherlands, and is involved in preparation efforts for implementing basic income at the municipal level.
He is now asking for a basic income himself, in order to keep working for the basic income cause, both on theoretical and practical grounds. According to his page on Dream or Donate he asks for contributions for a modest basic income of 1000 €/month, which is indeed basic for Dutch standards.
Other activists have also been trying this kind of crowd funding for securing a personal basic income, in order to keep working as activists for basic income. This is the case of Scott Santens, who is currently financed at 386 US$/month, according to his page on Patreon. This crowd funding efforts are in line with many other currently growing internet-based programs, like Indiegogo.
More information at:
Language: Dutch
Sjir Hoeijmakers personal page, at Dream or Donate
Scott Santens personal page, at Patreon
by Andre Coelho | Jan 22, 2015 | Research
Results from this recently published article show that basic income within all Spanish territory can be financed at approximately 7500 € per year for each adult person and 20% of that value for each child. The authors state none of the basic state functions (e.g.: education, health) need cuts in order to finance basic income, with reforms in taxation and savings from all benefits already given by the state, which need not exist when the basic income is implemented, paying for its implementation.
Language: Spanish
Jordi Arcarons, Antoni Domènech, Daniel Raventós, Lluís Torrens, “Un modelo de financiación de la Renta Básica para el conjunto del Reino de España: sí, se puede y es racional [A basic income finance model for all Spanish Kingdom: yes, it can be done and is rational]“, Sinpermisso, December 7 2014
by Josh Martin | Aug 10, 2014 | News
[Josh Martin]
Martin Bohmeyer, a 29-year-old web developer in Germany, has been living on a self-imposed basic income for the past half of a year. He crowdfunded this basic income and after seeing its effects firsthand, Bohmeyer is now crowdfunding even more to finance other peoples’ basic incomes. His initiative, “Mein Grundeinkommen” has already raised enough for almost two full basic incomes of €12,000 per year. Bohmeyer encourages his website visitors to submit their information to possibly be one of the winners of a basic income. The winners are to be chosen at random, but this project has generated responses from people saying what they would do with a basic income.
For more information, read the following links:
“Should we all get €12,000 a year?” The Local, 25 July 2014.
Mein Grundeinkommen home page
Should we all get €12,000 a year? (Source: The Local)
by Karl Widerquist | Jun 22, 2014 | News
PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY: Here we round up World Finance’s pursuit of today’s ascendant economic star: unconditional basic income. We take a look at just what unconditional basic income might mean for economies on both a micro and macro level.
World Finance, “Unconditional basic income roundup.” World Finance, May 15th, 2014.
Members of 'Generation Basic Income' pose with eight million coins of Swiss five-cent in a vault. Having collected over 130,000 signatures on a petition, the activists have forced a referendum on Universal Basic Income in Switzerland -via World Finance
