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
Robert Stayton: “Solar Dividends”
Undertitled "How solar energy can generate a basic income for everyone on Earth", this new book by Robert Stayton rides on an apparently radical idea: that all people on Earth can earn a basic income, financed from the generation of solar electricity alone. This comes...
United States: Presidential candidate Bill de Blasio chooses a Federal Jobs Guarantee over a UBI
Bill de Blasio. Picture credit to: UPI. Bill de Blasio, New York City mayor and Democratic Party candidate for the United States 2020 presidential elections, is firmly against Universal Basic Income (UBI). According to him, UBI is “woefully inadequate”, fearing it...
UBI Calculator ‘powerful’ tool for basic income
With help from an incredible team of software developers, economists, and supporters, we have created the UBIcalculator. The project has taken over a year to construct.
United States: Interview with Jonathan Herzog, Democratic Candidate for Congress in New York’s 10th District
Jonathan Herzog is a Democratic candidate currently running for US Congress in New York’s 10th District on a platform of Universal Basic Income.
The Future We Need
This is a guest post by Rahul Basu for The Indepentarian Blog. Welcome, Rahul. Author: Rahul Basu The Future We Need This is a comment on Karl Widerquist's excellent proposal for a People's Endowment. I'm a member of The Future We Need (TFWN), a global campaign to...
Plunder of the Commons: a manifesto for sharing public wealth
On wednesday, the 2nd October 2019, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm, professor Guy Standing will be presenting his new book "Plunder of the Commons: a manifesto for sharing public wealth" at the London School of Economics (LSE) Joining him will be Caroline Lucas (MP for...
Canada: Research on advantages of Canada Child Benefit
New research on The Canada Child Benefit
United States: Another unconditional cash-transfer pilot project is launched
It's called the Workers Strength Fund, and is financially and operationally backed by Commonwealth, Google.org, the Rockefeller Foundation and Prudential Financial. This new organization is unconditionally giving $1000 to 500 (randomly selected) precarious workers...
Links to Free Versions of most of Karl Widerquist’s writing
This page contains a list of links to free versions of pretty much everything I’ve ever written. Free versions are possible because most publishers allow authors to post early versions of their publications on their personal website. Where the published version is...
Event: International Basic Income Week 2019
International Basic Income Week is starting on 16th September. Posters and flyers can be found here. This year, there will be 3 worldwide SYNCHRONISED Basic Income Week actions: Facebook Profile Pictures Overlay your Facebook profile picture or add a frame 2nd...
Book review of “The War on Normal People”
The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future By Andrew Yang, Hachette Books; 304 pages Review by Karl Widerquist NOTE: This article is reprinted from Delphi - Interdisciplinary Review of Emerging...
Arab Humanist: The Necessity of Basic Income
Nohad A Nassif recently self-published her first book "Arab Humanist: The Necessity of Basic Income". It is an unashamedly autobiographical story, which talks about how she ran away from her family while living in Austin, Texas, and what happened to her when she...