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 job description/application for Asia/Pacific Hub Coordinator
BIEN is recruiting for a new paid position as Asia/Pacific Hub Coordinator. The deadline to submit applications is 31 January 2024. The Asia/Pacific Coordinator will be responsible for formalizing BIEN structures and operations in the Asia/Pacific region with respect...
16th International Basic Income Week Mo-Su 18th-24th September 2023
Hello Basic Income Week Supporters, we are happily to announce the Motto of the 16th International Basic Income Week Mo-Su 18th-24th September...
Catalans’ public opinion on Universal Basic Income
Aida Martinez Tinaut Office of the Pilot Project to Implement the UBI in Catalonia A survey was conducted in Catalonia between September and November 2022 with a total N of 3,098 which showed, among many other interesting findings, that the general catalan...
Basic Income: Sufficient Evidence, Now Politics
In 1942, as people started to think about remaking society after the War, William Beveridge wrote a report for the British government that was to shape the welfare state in Europe. He wrote, ‘It is a time for revolutions, not for patching.’ What he meant was that it...
Comingle: What if We All Got Together and Shared Some Money?
Comingle is an app under development that will unite people who want to make sure no one goes a week without income. For a quick introduction, watch this video. "We all need some extra money sometimes. Other times, we have a little extra to give. By connecting...
Review: Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas, “Welfare for Markets: A global history of Basic Income”
The publisher describes this book as ‘an incisive, comprehensive history’ that ‘tells the story of how a fringe idea conceived in economics seminars went global’. First of all, Basic Income was not ‘conceived in economics seminars’: it was conceived by such...
The Impact of Basic Income Initiatives on Mental Health
By Beau Peters, Guest Contributor Income and mental health are integrally tied. Severe mental health disorders are 4.5 times more prevalent among children who grew up in poverty and folks who face housing insecurity are twice as likely to have a “common mental health...
Niels I. Meyer (1930-2023) – Obituary
Niels I. Meyer, a pioneer in the Danish Basic Income movement and co-founder of BIEN, has passed away. A prolific writer as well as a frequent participant in public debates, Niels I. Meyer was in his professional life a professor in physics with important...
Open for Registration! – “Care & Gender – Potentials and Risks of UBI”
The FRIBIS Annual Conference 2023 from Oct. 09 – Oct. 11 will focus on Care & Gender as fundamental dimensions of human societies. It is dedicated to research, approaches and the possible interactions of care & gender in context of the Unconditional Basic...
Brazil’s President Lula’s declaration on Basic Income published in May 2023
In the eighth edition of Eduardo Suplicy’s book, Citizen’s Income: The Way out is through the Door (Renda de Cidadania: A Saída É Pela Porta) there is a dialog between Suplicy and now re-elected President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva on the occasion of Suplicy’s 80th...
Book Review: Basic Income: A Short Guide by Annie Miller
Annie Miller, a co-founder of BIEN, has just published a new book, Basic Income: A Short Guide (Edinburgh: Luath Press). This is a clear, concise, and complete work that should be in the library of every supporter of basic income (BI). The book begins with a critique...
Positive evaluation of basic Income pilot in Uganda
In August 2020 the Dutch NGO INclusion started a basic income pilot in the village Welle in Nebbi District in Uganda, together with Ugandan partner AFARD. All 350+ people of the village, adults as well as children, have received a basic income amounting to the...