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
THE ECONOMIC LESSON OF 1938 (from 2009)
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in August 2009. If I use the phrase “lesson of 1938,” most people will probably think about Britain’s unsuccessful attempt to avoid war with Nazi Germany by giving away a piece of Czechoslovakia. There are...
USA: Many in Silicon Valley Support Universal Basic Income. Now the California Democratic Party Does, Too
Credit to: Wikipedia. The Democratic Party in California is supporting Universal Basic Income (UBI). It is now public that people like Elon Musk have supported the initiative, mainly justified through job losses due to automation. However, this of course leads to...
Italy: I Love Dignity and Guaranteed Income
The Network Rete dei Numeri Pari organized the event called "I love dignity. Guaranteed minimum income. What it is and how to build an instrument against inequality, mafia and poverty" in the past 14th and 15th of February, 2018. Among many speakers, Sandro...
New book: Beyond the Income for Inclusion, for a guaranteed Income as a Basic Right.
The Basic Income Network Italy has published a new Quaderno per il Reddito (Income Notebook) N°8 - February 2018. The title of this new publication is "Beyond the Income for Inclusion, for a guaranteed income as a basic right" and hosts, in 144 pages, twelve italian...
New Book: Basic income, the whole world talks about it. Experiences, proposals and experiments.
Basic income, the whole world talks about it. Experiences, proposals and experiments this is the title of a new book by Sandro Gobetti and Luca Santini, with a preface by Andrea Fumagalli, published by GoWare Edizioni (March 2018). Description At the dawn of a new...
International: Being paid for data
Credit to: The Blue Diamond Gallery. Who does data belong to? As data becomes an even bigger part of society, it's a very important question to ask. A lot of businesses collect their own data then go to someone like JustUnderstandingData, a data engineering...
RSA suggests stepping stone to UBI
The UK-based Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has released a report suggesting a Universal Basic Opportunity Fund (UBOF) as a stepping-stone to a full universal basic income (UBI). The suggested UBOF would consist of £5000 a...
KEEPING THE GLOBAL RECESSION IN PERSPECTIVE (from 2009)
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in May 2009. The global recession has been spreading and deepening for nearly a year. It could become the worst downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it has captured nearly all of the...
Taipei to hold second annual UBI Asia Pacific conference
The second annual Basic Income Asia Pacific conference will be held in Taipei on March 17 and 18. This year’s theme is “Asia Pacific’s Economic Future.”
New Book: Daniel Raventós’ and Julie Wark’s “Against Charity”
Daniel Raventós and Julie Wark have just published a new book titled “Against Charity”. Both authors argue for an unconditional universal basic income above the poverty line and paid for by progressive taxation to both eradicate poverty and empower recipients—the...
HEALING BUT NOT A CURE (from 2009)
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in February 2009. Like millions of people around the world, I watched Obama’s inaugural last month and saw the panning shots of huge crowds against the backdrop of the Washington Monument and the...
OPINION: Isn’t true love unconditional? : The International Women’s Day, the UK government’s Valentine message, and the 50th anniversary of working class women demanding UBI.
The International Women's Day is approaching. This is a poster for the International Women's Day march 45 years ago. (Photo above) Two working-class women, one carries a buggy, and the other carries a placard containing written slogans reflecting three of the original...