A Basic Income is a periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all on an individual basis, without means-test or work requirement.

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash How can basic income function as climate adaptation infrastructure amid rising energy costs and data center expansion? Arif Gasilov is Partner, Climate & Environmental Reporting at Gasilov Group, where he advises companies on ESG...

Brittany Christenson is the CEO of AidKit, the Public Benefit Corporation transforming how governments and nonprofits deliver aid. A former nonprofit leader, she brings deep empathy and accountability to tech-driven solutions built for dignity and fairness. Under her...

Upon coming home from prison, people face the same — and rising — costs of living as the rest of us. But they have to bear additional costs imposed by the criminal legal system as well, all while navigating additional and unique barriers to employment....

BIEN's annual Congress is the major global meeting for people advocating for, researching debating and putting into practice basic income in all its dimensions. But participation in an international congress costs money. Travel, accommodation and visa costs can be...

Due to overwhelming interest in the 25th BIEN Congress, we have extended the submission deadline to Sunday, May 3. This is the final opportunity to submit — no further extensions will be granted. The response to this year’s call has been remarkable, and...

Reproduced with permission from Global Views Monthly. Original article:　https://www.gvm.com.tw/article/128971 In the discourse on AI replacing human labor, there is not only panic but also hope. Technology leaders often refer to...

AI leaders keep saying UBI is necessary. This pledge asks them to prove it. I’ve been working on universal basic income full-time since 2013. Thirteen years. In that time, I’ve watched the conversation shift from “that’s a crazy idea” to “that’s inevitable.”...

Photo by Steve A Johnson on Unsplash As governments grapple with how to manage the economic fallout of superintelligent machines, OpenAI has released a set of policy proposals outlining the ways wealth and work could be reshaped in an “intelligence age.” The ideas...

BIEN founding conference, Louvain-la-Neuve, 6 September 1986From left to right: Bill Jordan, Claus Offe, Annie Miller, Nick Douben, Greetje Lubbi, Riccardo Petrella. Bill Jordan died in the night from 11 to 12 April 2026 in Worcester (England). He was one of the...

Against the backdrop of slow progress in the energy transition and the challenges of meeting high levels of demand, analyzing the potential and policy framework for reducing demand through sufficiency approaches is becoming increasingly important. Over the past five...