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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The 24th BIEN CONGRESS in Maricá & Niterói – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 27-29 August 2025
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Recent News, Opinion, and Research
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...
Taiwan Hosts National Debate Tournament on Basic Income
TAIPEI, Taiwan - On March 11 and 12, UBI Taiwan hosted a national bilingual high school debate tournament at National Chengchi University (NCCU). Over 100 students from local and international schools across Taiwan participated in the event, which featured both...
Mandatory Participation on Trial
I've started a new 17-part series, called Mandatory Participation on Trial, on my blog. Part 1 just came out April 13. Sixteen more will come out once per week for the next 16 weeks. It counterattacks critics of UBI by grouping all systems without any form of...
FRIBIS – The State Of The Art In Basic Income Policy: A Public Lecture Series
Jurgen De Wispelaere is visiting professor in Freiburg and he hosts an online public lecture series from April 24 through May 10 which can be of interest for many people in the basic income sphere. For details click here. On April 27 he will also present a hybrid...
Will UBI Become Mainstream? – Al Jazeera Video
"Interest in universal basic income (UBI) programmes around the world is continuing to rise, with governments and private donor groups examining the social and economic effects of unconditional cash payments to citizens. Ireland recently joined the ranks of countries...
An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact
Potential of Large Language Models
Abstract of a recent paper: "We investigate the potential implications of large language models (LLMs), such as Generative Pretrained Transformers (GPTs), on the U.S. labor market, focusing on the increased capabilities arising from LLM-powered software compared to...
Webinar with Guy Standing April 13 – THE BLUE COMMONS: COMBATING RENTIER CAPITALISM IN THE SEA
Who owns the sea? For centuries, this would have been a strange question. But in the past half century, the sea has been subject to the greatest capitalist enclosure in history. Although the sea covers 71% of the world’s surface and hosts two-thirds of all...
Deadline for BIEN 2023 Congress Call for Papers extended til April 30
The deadline is extended to April 30th. It is now updated in the Congress webpage.
UBI Provides a Safety Net During Bank Failures
This month Silicon Valley Bank defaulted causing the biggest bank failure since Lehman Brothers in 2008. The US government helped in finding a solution to stop the depositors from losing their money. The main reason for the bank's failure was a bank run because of the...
Mark Wadsworth, former BIEN Treasurer, has passed away
Gerard Mark Wadsworth – always known as Mark – was a passionate advocate for Basic Income. He was a tax accountant, and brought to the Basic Income debate a comprehensive knowledge of the UK’s tax system. For over twenty years Mark was a passionate advocate for Basic...
Discussion on Sri Lankan Economic Crisis and UBI
An almost two hour discussion of the Sri Lankan economic crisis in the broader context of today's flawed development model moderated by Sonali Wanigabaduge concludes with former World Bank senior director for Development Economics, the chief economist of the Middle...
Short Video on June US Basic Income Guarantee Conference
The US BIG conference will be held in Chicago, Illinois, on June 8-9 2023. Watch a short video about the conference by clicking here. Learn more about the conference and register/purchase tickets by clicking here.