A Basic Income is a periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all on an individual basis, without means-test or work requirement.
BIEN Congresses
BIEN’s 2022 Congress will be held in Brisbane, Australia, from Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th September 2022. Registration now open. This will be a hybrid face to face and online event. The main face-to-face event will take place in Brisbane.
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Recent news, opinion, and research
Poem: Turn on the tap
14.5 million living in poverty in the world’s fifth largest economy until a global pandemic forced our chancellor to spend £69 billion on a word none of us had ever heard of. Furlough showed universal basic income to be a fundable possibility, at £67 billion net cost...
The Evolution of Ukraine’s Income Support Program
This article is based on a post by Scott Santens, and quotes extensively from it, New information was also obtained today from an article by Violetta Orlova forwarded by a Russian BIEN activist born in Ukraine, Alexander Soloviev. On December 19, 2021, Ukraine...
Pope Francis and Basic Income in the context of Catholic social teaching and theology
Dr. Markus Schlagnitweit, Director of the Catholic Social Academy Austria, has written an article about Catholic teaching and theory and basic income. Several statements of Pope Francis about basic income were reviewed. In his paper, Schlagnitweit rejects the claim...
The 4th “Clarification of the Basic Income’s Definition” (CBID) Open Forum
Topic: ‘Uniformity’ as a Characteristic of Basic Income: 1pm GMT (2pm London), 26th Tuesday April 2022 As it stands, BIEN’s definition of BI permits discrimination on the basis of gender, race and creed. The addition of a new characteristic ‘uniform’ could lead to...
Income Movement: Quarterly State of the Movement Video
This virtual event on 22 March 2022, organized by Income Movement, provided an opportunity to hear from legislators, experts, and thought leaders on the current state of the basic income movement in the United States. Guest speakers discussed national, state,...
Social Europe Blog and UBI
Social Europe is an influential blog that some years ago published some articles both for and against Basic Income that Philippe Van Parijs edited into a book. The blog has now returned to the subject with a new post, A European basic income? The ethos is now...
Workshop on the Catalan Universal Basic Income Pilot Project
Dear all, we are pleased to invite you to the Workshop on the Catalan Universal Basic Income Pilot Project. It will take place on Thursday 31 March and Friday 1 April and will be accessible online...
Digital conference: Universal Basic Income and Debt-free Sovereign Money
The University of Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies, together with the Berlin based think tank polisphere are holding a digital conference on Wednesday 23.03.2022 chaired by Geoff Crocker, author of 'Basic Income and Sovereign Money‘ and editor of the web...
A Systemic Ecosystem for Socio-Economic Development (SESED)
Universal Basic Income (UBI) takes care of sustenance needs, and SESED (Figure 1), can complement UBI to achieve poverty alleviation. This will be through a small business enterprise, whose success is facilitated by SESED given the peace of mind that UBI provides....