Minho, Portugal. Picture credit to: Notícias ao Minuto Last Wednesday there was a Conference on Basic Income at...
Portugal: Aftermath of Conference on Basic Income
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United States: Economists’ Statement on Carbon Dividends
"The answer is blowing in the wind". Picture credit to: BBC News. It’s official. Twenty-seven Nobel Laureate...
Erik Olin Wright, influential sociologist and long-term Basic Income advocate, announces he has only weeks to live (Update: Wright passed away on January 23)
Erik Olin Wright, a long-term advocate of Universal Basic Income and one of the most influential sociologists today,...
France: One conference on basic income a month, until June 2019
The L’Ecole des Hautes Estudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Social Sciences University in France) is organizing and...
VIDEO: Release of the BIEN Congress 2018 plenary sessions video recordings
The plenary sessions of the BIEN Congress 2018 are now available to view, here (all). Individually, the...
Crowdsourced funding as a ‘basic income’ for artists
What do we do when the future we want is precluded by precarious economic conditions or a staleness social system?
UK: Call for Papers announced for Cambridge conference on intellectual history of basic income
A team of three University of Cambridge scholars have released a CFP for a conference on the history of the idea of basic income, to be held on January 14, 2019.
SPAIN: Documentary about Basic Income opens in Madrid
A new documentary about Basic Income, RBUI, nuestro derecho a vivir, in english UBI, our right to live, had its debut...
President Obama Receives BIEN Letter Through Senator Suplicy (from 2011)
This essay was originally published on Basic Income News in May 2011. In March 2011, Brazilian Senator (and...
Germany: Basic Income and the Euro-Dividend as Socio-political Pillars of the EU and its Member Countries (Conference)
"There will always be hope". Picture credit: Alex Gi. On the 11th and 12th of October 2018, the University of...
Universal Basic Income and the Duty to Work
What should a government faced with an unmanageable level of unemployment do when conventional policy has failed to resolve the issue?
Basic Income’s Third Wave
This essay is reprinted from OpenDemocracy, 18 October 2017 Support for unconditional basic income (UBI) has grown so...
Italy: Basic Income, a proposal for the 21st century
Meeting of the Basic Income Network, in Italy On Friday, 10 November 2017, the Italian Basic Income Network -...
PORTUGAL: Basic Income Gets a Boost of Interest from the Media
After the 17th BIEN Conference in Lisbon, Portugal had a boost of interest from the media on Basic Income. There were...
17th BIEN Congress in Lisbon, Portugal
The 17th BIEN Congress took place in Lisbon, Portugal from the 25th to the 27th of September. The focus of the...
FRANCE: “Monthly Dossiers” debuts with issue on UBI
The dossier features the work of Stéphan Lipiansky, Jean-Éric Hyafil, Denis Clerc, and François Meunier.
SPAIN: The Green European Foundation will host a Workshop about Basic Income on September 9.
The Green European Foundation will host a workshop about Basic Income during the upcoming 9th Edition of Univerde, a...
US: Stanford’s Basic Income Lab plans new schedule of events
BIL’s events for the upcoming academic year include a private workshop on cities and UBI and public lectures on UBI and racial and gender justice.
HISTORY of UBI: From Hunter-Gatherers to the 21st Century
Investopedia published an article in May this year, “The Long, Weird History of Basic Income – And Why It’s Back” In...
AT Kearney: “Best Things in Life Are Free?”
Credit to: AT Kearney. Courtney McCaffrey and others from AT Kearney published an article on the debate around...