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
An article on Basic Income funded by sovereign money
Geoff Crocker has published an article in the Real-world economic review: 'Inequality and the case for UBI funded by sovereign money' The current economic system is generating increasing inter-personal inequality in income and wealth. This is well documented by...
The UK: A Summer discussion series
The Basic Income Conversation is launching a Summer Discussion Series on Basic Income. It's a 3 part series that explores the Future of Work, Pilots, and Monetary Financing - some of the most talked about subjects when it comes to UBI. The first event is...
The UK considers universal vouchers
The Guardian newspaper reports that the UK Treasury is considering sending vouchers to everyone to spend on a range of goods. This would not be a Basic Income, but it shares some of its characteristics and would be an interesting experiment to watch. Radical plans to...
Los Angeles and Atlanta plan to test Basic Income
Rachel Sandler has written an article for the Forbes website about an increasing number of US cities planning to establish Basic Income pilot projects. The mayors of Los Angeles; Oakland, California; Atlanta, Georgia; Tacoma, Washington, Newark, New Jersey; Saint...
Irish Government commits to trialling UBI
There is a translation of this article into French The newly formed Government of the 33rd Dáil has committed to trialling Basic Income (BI) in Ireland over the next five years. The announcement was made in the Programme for Government (PfG) agreed between Fine Gael,...
Maricá one step from Universal Basic Income
The original article in Portuguese can be found here. Eduardo Galeano said, mentioning the words of Argentine filmmaker Fernando Birre, that no matter how much a person walks, he or she will never reach utopia. Precisely because of this, its value would be in...
India: numerous articles about Basic Income in the press
Numerous articles about Basic Income have appeared in the press in India, contributing to an already lively debate about Basic Income in the country. In March, Neil Howard and Sarath Davala wrote an article for Al Jazeera: Alongside securing a regular supply of food,...
Review of Charles Murray’s “In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State,” from 2009
This Review was originally published in the Review of Political Economy, December 6, 2009. It's reproduced here as originally published. In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State, by Charles Murray, Washington, DC, AEI Press, 2006, 230 pp., $20.00 hardcover...
Living Minimum Income in Spain: very far from a UBI
In a previous news report the initial details and negotiation of the Living Minimum Income had been specified. In this piece the final details of the Minimum Living Income are specified. What is the scheme about? The Minimum Living Income (IMV, due to its acronym in...
UK Liberal Democrats discuss Basic Income
One of the contenders for the leadership of the UK's Liberal Democratic Party has edited a a book of policy ideas for the party: Build Back Better. Among those policies is a Basic Income: Nothing could be more uncertain than what will happen as we emerge from...
Basic Income: Remittances from Nowhere
Now is the time to push for a World Basic Income paid to every human on the planet.
UNDP discussion on gender equality and Basic Income
On the 11th June 2020 the United Nations Development Programme hosted a discussion on gender equality during which Basic Income was discussed https://youtu.be/14vmGkUJq8M