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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International: New basic income information hub, on the Internet
A new website was created, and just launched, to provide updated news and information about UBI (Unconditional Basic Income), with the goal of furthering the discussion about how UBI impacts purpose, identity, and dignity. It will convey content from general news and...
Russia: Russian universities are embarking in UBI discussions
Speaking panel at the Lomonosov Moscow State University. There is a growing interest about basic income in Russia, at least on the academic level. Leading Russian Universities have been organizing discussions around the issue, with the support and participation of the...
BIEN Conference 2019: Contributions invited for an anthology of writings, poems and visual art
As students of life, some of us have lived through poverty, through the worried nights of insecurity, the feeling of being powerless and valueless. Some of us have seen the angst of unemployment, the feeling of being unwanted, the restless days of sitting at home...
São Paulo, Brazil: The Brazilian Basic Income Network gets formalized (after 9 years of existence)
Jurgen De Wispelaere and Eduardo Suplicy, at the Catholic University of São Paulo. The Brazilian Basic Income Network (Rede Brasileira da Renda Básica) was finally formalized on the 26th of April, 2019. The organization had been formed in 2010, when the Basic Income...
FINLAND: further results from the famous Finnish UBI experiment published
Further preliminary results from Finland’s much publicised basic income experiment have been announced: firstly, the study’s basic income recipients reported increased trust; secondly, increased agency; and thirdly (perhaps unsurprisingly), they reported an improved...
PODCAST: Scott Santens reads his own interview with Forbes magazine about UBI
Scott Santens Back in September 2016, Scott Santens gave an interview, published in Forbes Magazine, which he now reads on this podcast. Near the end of the podcast, Santens says what might summarize his position on the relationship between basic income and work: If...
Creativity has nothing to do with money
When someone creates something, he or she does it out of a primal urge to give life to something new.
United States: Andrew Yang hits the stage at CNN Presidential Town Hall
Andrew Yang, the only Democrat presidential candidate to the US elections in 2020 announcing a basic income policy in his platform, has been on CNN Presidential Town Hall, solo featured on the latest 14th of April. At this televised campaign event, Yang was clear...
United Kingdom: The interest for a basic income trial in Sheffield is building up
Wall painting in Sheffield. The Universal Basic Income (UBI) Lab Sheffield, a campaigning group working from the city of Sheffield, northern UK, has written to all the 84 city councilors in the region, as a move to have them support a local basic income experiment....
Russia: A short-term basic income experiment starts in Russia
The Social movement “Basic Income Russia Tomorrow”, together with the charity foundation “Coordinates of Good”, were awarded the Wow Successful Awards 2019, in the Social Innovation chapter, on the 13th of March. This award means the movement will be able to make...
Korea to launch provincial ‘Youth Basic Income’ program
Korea’s provincial program will unconditionally give US$900 in local currency per year to 24-year-old residents of Gyeonggi province.
Can basic income ensure distributive justice in India?
UBI bypasses India’s weak system of existing welfare schemes which are riddled with misallocation, leakages, and exclusion of the poor.