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 Members: Register for the August 30 General Assembly!
We have the pleasure of inviting you to our annual General Assembly (GA), scheduled for 30 August at 1pm British Summer Time (UTC+1), taking place online and on the sidelines of BIEN's Annual Congress. We kindly ask you to register online through Eventbrite to be able...
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Four years of U.S. Mayors for a Guaranteed Income
"MGI was founded in June 2020 with 11 members. The Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED), which was announced in 2017 and implemented in 2019, had proven Mayor Michael Tubbs’s assumption that low-income residents would use the money on basic...
Online Open Forum: The BIEN working group on Clarification of Basic Income Definition, July 24
Date: 24 th July 2024Time: 11.30am -1.00pm GMTTo register click here. The information on zoom link will be shown in the form.Speaker: Annie MillerTopic: Adequacy, poverty benchmarks and a maximum feasible level of BI ABSTRACTThe introduction of the concept of needs...
BIEN contribution to UN Peacebuilding Support Office (UN PBSO): Call for endorsements
BIEN has been invited to submit a proposal to the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO) for the 2025 Review of the global Peacebuilding Architecture. The work of PBSO, is to, among others, support the Peacebuilding Commission, an intergovernmental...
Equal Right’s Cap and Share Proposal to Fight Climate Change
Equal Right (formerly ‘World Basic Income’) is a global justice organization advocating for climate and economic justice without borders. We research and campaign for innovative approaches that could achieve global redistribution, tackle global inequalities and secure...
Universal Basic Income is Close to Being a Reality in Oregon
Note: Alaska already has the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD), a similar UBI-like program funded from revenue derived from invested state petroleum revenues, so Oregon would be the second, not the first U.S. state with such a program if the Oregon Rebate passes in the...
New book explores why and how guaranteed-income programs should be a social norm in the US
"Natalie Foster believes in creating economic resilience for families. She says income inequality is a real problem; some people work three jobs just to stay afloat. Foster, who serves as the president and co-founder of the Economic Security Project, was a guest on...
Monthly payments of $1,000 could get thousands of Los Angeles homeless people off the streets, researchers say
"A monthly payment of $750 to $1,000 would allow thousands of the city’s homeless people to find informal housing, living in boarding homes, in shared apartments and with family and friends, according to a policy brief by four prominent Los Angeles academics." To read...
Basic Income to be discussed July 20 at Festival of Ideas, Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil
Panel 9 Universal basic income and the future of social policy in the global south [Interpretation into English and Portuguese, No Spanish]Venue: Fausto CastilhoModerator: Leandro Ferreira, Head of Brazilian Basic IncomeNetworkSpeakers: Eduardo Suplicy, State Deputy...
Denver Basic Income Project Releases Year One Research Report
Photo: Armando GeneyroNote: The use of the term Basic Income in this article does not conform to BIEN's definition.Denver Basic Income Project (DBIP) has released the results its Year One quantitative and quantitative findings. What the research has discovered...
Webinar: Towards a Universal Basic Dividend – 12:00 CEST June 13
Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity introduces Citizen Funds and a Universal Basic Dividend (UBD) as bold proposals to reduce inequality, increase wellbeing, and boost creativity and innovation in a time of social and economic upheaval. This...