by USBIG | Jul 2, 2015 | News
The Fifteenth Annual North American Basic Income Guarantee (NABIG) Congress will take place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada from Thursday, May 12 to Sunday, May 15, 2016. The congress is co-organized by the Basic Income Canada Network, the United States Basic Income Guarantee Network, Basic Income Manitoba, and the University of Manitoba. It will bring together social activists, policy advocates, researchers, government officials, and community members interested in the provision of an unconditional, universal, adequate basic income for all. A call for papers, presentations and posters for the Congress will be released in September 2015. Stay tuned for further details. Visit tourismwinnipeg.com for information about Winnipeg, Manitoba. Please direct inquiries to: nabigcongress2016@umanitoba.ca. For more information go to USBIG.net.
Event: Fifteenth Annual North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress, May 12 – 15, 2016
Location: University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Dates: Thursday, May 12 – Sunday, May 15, 2016
Release of call for presentations: September 2015
Inquiries: nabigcongress2016@umanitoba.ca
More information: www.usbig.net
University of Manitoba
by BIEN | Jun 24, 2015 | News
This article reports on the findings of “Mincome” basic income experiment in Dauphin, Canada. The Mincome experiment is the largest ever conducted in North America, lasting over four years. A recent revaluation of the findings by Dr. Evelyn L. Forget,an economist and professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba,found the basic income policy created a decline in doctor visits, an 8.5 percent reduction in the hospitalization rate, and more adolescents continuing into grade 12. Mallet uses these findings, along with the historical support from the libertarian Right, to argue in favor of the adoption of a guaranteed income.
Whitney Mallet, “The Town Where Everyone Got Free Money” Motherboard, February 4, 2015
by Josh Martin | May 31, 2015 | News
Santens uses John Oliver’s segment on the lack of paid parental leave legislation in the U.S. to highlight how basic income can effectively serve the same purpose as parental leave legislation and how it helps mothers of newborn children. By using the negative income experiments of the 1970s in the U.S. and Canada, Santens argues that the worst-case reduction in hours worked by mothers would be about 10 weeks of time off from work to care for the new child, but these 10 weeks would be voluntarily taken off and would still be less time off than parents in other countries have.
Scott Santens, “Basic Income as Paid Parental Leave”, 11 May 2015.
by Liam Upton | May 28, 2015 | News
A series of online Basic Income groups have been formed in the UK in the past couple of weeks. The groups are affiliated with BIEN member, Basic Income UK. About half of the groups are focused on local areas within the UK, e.g. Basic Income UK – South East England, while the other half are international and focused on societal groups amongst whom Basic Income could have support, e.g. Basic Income – Interfaith, Humanist, Agnostic and Atheist.
The groups were founded as part of a plan to solidify and encourage support of Basic Income amongst those who are already active as part of community organisations. Becca Kirkpatrick, the founder of some of the groups, said “Unions, churches, parent groups, carers groups, all of these have a huge part to play in expanding the conversation and helping to normalise the idea.”
The creation of the groups comes amid a growing number of local groups forming in different countries, including Canada, the USA and Ireland. A map of Basic Income local groups around the world is available here.
The full list of groups is as follows:
UK
National – https://www.facebook.com/groups/basic.income.uk/
West Midlands – https://www.facebook.com/groups/WestMidsBIUK/
North East England – https://www.facebook.com/groups/BI.UK.NE.England/
South East England – https://www.facebook.com/groups/SouthEastBIUK/
Trade Unionists – https://www.facebook.com/groups/TUBIUK/
International
Caregivers – https://www.facebook.com/groups/caregivers.for.a.basic.income.guarantee/
Interfaith, Humanist, Agnostic & Atheist – https://www.facebook.com/groups/BI.Interfaith.Nonfaith/
Active Life (Sports, Gardening) – https://www.facebook.com/groups/BI.ActiveLife/
by Josh Martin | May 14, 2015 | News
Benns writes about the possibility of a ‘basic income’ in Canada, where each citizen would be entitled to $20,000. However, Benns seems to conflate a Negative Income Tax, which he effectively argues for, with a basic income, since he argues that $20,000 should be the ‘cut-off point’ where a citizen should not receive the basic income anymore. Regardless, Benns discusses the desirability of implementing a basic income guarantee in Canada.
Roderick Benns, “Goodbye welfare, hello basic income”, Leaders and Legacies, 1 May 2015.
