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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Recent News, Opinion, and Research
Germany: Half a million signatures for a 6 months Basic Income
As in other countries, the coronavirus shutdown makes the economic situation increasingly precarious for many people. For many, this is a sudden new experience, especially for self-employed people who have no reserves and do not receive short-time work...
Finland: Final results of Finland’s Basic Income Experiment released on May 6th
Finland's Basic Income Experiment was the world's first statutory, nationwide and randomized basic income experiment. That experiment, in which preliminary results have already been reported on, several research questions were asked: How did the Basic Income...
Coordinated activity in the United States
This weekend, April 24-26, the US Congress will be debating and probably voting on the CARES 2 Act, the next phase in the US government's response to the health and financial crisis brought on by the coronavirus. A coalition has been formed, under the leadership of...
UBI Europe webinars
UBI Europe is to hold webinars. They say this about them: Europe and the world under the siege of a virus: Difficult days to cope with for the most of us. At the same time, we begin to realise – the world might never be again like before the epidemic. Will Basic...
New style monthly BIEN Bulletin for April 2020
It's been a while since the monthly Newsflash was published. We've now started to publish a new style BIEN Bulletin once a month. The April edition can be found here. .
UK members of parliament ask for a Recovery Basic Income
In the UK, 110 members of parliament and peers have written an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to ask for a Recovery Basic Income. To read an article about the letter, and to read the letter and signatories, click here.
Counterpunch article on money creation and Basic Income
Counterpunch has published an article by Ellen Brown that studies the possibility of central banks creating money with which to pay a Basic Income: A Universal Basic Income is essential and will work. ...
The Netherlands: Income Assistance for the Self-Employed and the Push for UBI
The Dutch government has implemented a new programme for self-employed individuals who have suffered a loss of income due to the COVID-19 pandemic – the Temporary bridging measure for self-employed professionals (Tozo). The new arrangement entitles individuals who are...
Canada: time for a Basic Income?
Canada is taking measures to face the Covid-19 pandemic. The situation requires, together with radical and fast actions in medical terms, radical and fast actions in economic and social terms. The introduction of a Basic Income has been a topic for years in Canada and...
Cash-for-Corona in Spain
Cash-for-corona: why the current policy proposal being discussed in Spain has nothing to do with a universal basic income This article was updated on the 19th April 2020 Since the outbreak of coronavirus and the subsequent social and economic lockdown, there have been...
Mike Howard’s new podcast on Basic Income and the coronavirus
In this episode of Maine Policy Matters, published by the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, Daniel Soucier interviews Dr. Michael Howard, Professor of Philosophy at the university, about the confluence of Universal Basic Income and the...
Basic Income discussions in Chile
Following the trend of other countries, the Chilean government announced in March an emergency package; with a one-time bonus of $60 approximately designed to cover the income loss of 60% of the most vulnerable population as well as the possibility of accessing the...