A Basic Income is a periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all on an individual basis, without means-test or work requirement.
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BIEN Congresses
The 24th BIEN CONGRESS in Maricá & Niterói – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 27-29 August 2025
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BIEN2024 was August 29–31 (Pictures and more coming soon)
Recent News, Opinion, and Research
New book: The Popularity of Basic Income – Evidence from the Polls
How popular is basic income among the general public and different groups within it? Although many argue that this question is hugely important for the political feasibility of public opinion, the current scientific evidence is very much scattered. This book provides...
How can we pay for UBI? Is Sovereign Money the Solution?
UBI Lab Leeds and UBI Lab Network invite you to this thought-provoking webinar. Geoff Crocker proposes to use Sovereign Money. He will discuss his proposition with Malcolm Sawyer who is a retired professor of economics from the University of Leeds and a critic of the...
FRIBIS Announces Annual Conference 9-11 October
This year’s FRIBIS Annual Conference will take place in Freiburg, Germany from 9 to 11 October and will focus on the topic "Care and Gender – Potentials & Risks of UBI". Over the past few decades care work and the social dimension of gender have increasingly...
Deputy Eduardo Suplicy testifies in favor of UBI in Brazil’s Federal Senate
BIEN member Eduardo Suplicy, pictured above with BIEN Chair Sarath Davala at the Hyderabad BIEN Congress, testified in favor of a measure implementing a law he authored in 2004 gradually implementing a Citizens Basic Income (UBI) in Brazil. The invited testimony took...
Report of the UK UBI Movement Gathering, 2023
Saturday April 30th was a significant day for the UK UBI movement, as over 30 people from around the country came together in Sheffield to discuss movement coordination and consolidation. Attendees included politicians, researchers, civil society organisations, and...
A tribute to Götz W. Werner: New YouTube videos
Two videos on the legacy of Götz Werner produced by Enno Schmidt have just been published on the FRIBIS YouTube channel: Prof. Bernhard Neumärker draws connections between Götz Werner’s various guiding entrepreneurial principles in his lecture “UBI & New...
FRIBIS Summer School Announcement
FRIBIS will be hosting a three-part Summer School this year which will take place in Freiburg (Germany). Each part will focus on the topic of “Empirical Methods in UBI Investigation” but from different perspectives. The Summer School will be held in English and...
Indonesia: Yogyakarta’s Basic Income Pilot Experiment (YBIP)
Jamesta Istimewa is a Basic Income Pilot experiment that provides participants free cash payments without strings attached. "Jamesta" means Universal Basic Income Guarantee in Bahasa (Indonesian language), and "Istimewa" means "special," which is nothing but another...
Invitation: Will UBI (Really) Change the World?
You are kindly invited to a symposium that will showcase the latest findings from Basic Income's newest pilots in India and Brazil. BIEN's Sarath, Julio and Diana will present their latest work as well as policy considerations for international development...
Guaranteed Income takes center stage at Tribeca Film Festival!
Directed by Marc Levin and executive produced by Mayors for a Guaranteed Income Founder Michael Tubbs, “It's Basic” will premiere at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in New York this June. The documentary explores the power of cash, the importance of dignity, and...
The Guardian reviews “Free Money” film on Give Directly Kenya pilot
Image credit: https://www.givedirectly.org/ubi-study/ On 19 April 2023 The Guardian published a review by Peter Bradshaw of the 2022 film, "Free Money". The documentary follows an experiment funded by the charity GiveDirectly in which residents of the Kenyan village...
UBI4ALL Announces April 23 UBI Raffle
UBI4ALL announces the date of its next raffle! Mark your calendars for 23 April 2023. UBI4ALL will be livestreaming the raffle of one year Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) on that day from 7pm CEST. Join us and, with a little luck, win 800 euros a month – and...