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9/06/2019
10:09 am GMT+0200
News

United States: Another unconditional cash-transfer pilot project is launched

9/06/2019

It's called the Workers Strength Fund, and is financially and operationally backed by Commonwealth, Google.org, the Rockefeller Foundation and Prudential Financial. This new organization is...

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7/07/2019
10:14 am GMT+0200
News

United States: Unstoppable Andrew Yang carries basic income to the national debate stage

7/07/2019

All ten candidates at the Democratic Deabte for the United States Presidential elections.   “It is not left, it is not right, it is forward”. Andrew Yang drank from Scott Santens famous...

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7/02/2019
10:07 am GMT+0200
News

Europe: An EU citizens initiative for a Carbon Fee & Dividend is collecting signatures

7/02/2019

An European Citizen’s Initiative on the application of a carbon tax-citizen’s dividend scheme has been accepted by the European Commission (May 2019) and is, at the moment, collecting support...

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6/14/2019
1:35 pm GMT+0200
News

United States: Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib backs up basic income bill for the United States

6/14/2019

Rashida Tlaib. Picture credit to: HuffPost.   On the 30th of May, 2019, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib hosted the 13th Congressional District Women and Families Roundtable with community members...

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6/10/2019
11:24 pm GMT+0200
Events, News & Events

World Health Organization’s High-level Conference on Health Equity

6/10/2019

The World Health Organization (WHO) is organizing a High-level Conference on Health Equity, happening on the 11–13th June 2019, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Hosted by the Government of Slovenia, it...

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6/05/2019
10:00 am GMT+0200
Academic Articles, From the web, News, News & Events

Canada: Report “Signposts to Success” shows how beneficial the cancelled Ontario basic income experiment was being

6/05/2019

The reading of results from basic income type of experiments is, apparently, dependent on who is reading them. The Ontario present government officials did not think, for instance, that there were...

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5/29/2019
1:53 pm GMT+0200
News

India: The stars were not aligned in 2019, for basic income in the Indian continent

5/29/2019

Night view from Coorg valley, India   It seems the promise of a solid financial ground for all poor citizens in India was not enough to win the Congress Party a leading position on the Indian...

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5/06/2019
12:07 am GMT+0200
Events, News, News & Events

United Kingdom: Guy Standing presenting report “Piloting Basic Income as Common Dividends”

5/06/2019

John McDonnell (left) and Guy Standing (right) This week, on May 7th, Guy Standing will be presenting a report prepared at the request of the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, John McDonnell MP....

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9/19/2019
1:55 pm GMT+0200
From the web, News, News & Events

United States: New (online) UBI calculator

9/19/2019

Go to ubicalculator.com and get an ideia of how universal basic income plans, as presented up to this moment in time (for the United States reality), affect you and/or your family. Given individual...

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9/17/2019
11:18 pm GMT+0200
Blogs, Opinion, The Independentarian

The book, “The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee:” Free Version available

9/17/2019

The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee (2005) edited by Karl Widerquist, Michael Anthony Lewis, and Steven Pressman, published by Publishing is availed in a free version at this...

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9/17/2019
2:31 pm GMT+0200
Book Announcements, From the web, News & Events

Robert Stayton: “Solar Dividends”

9/17/2019

Undertitled "How solar energy can generate a basic income for everyone on Earth", this new book by Robert Stayton rides on an apparently radical idea: that all people on Earth can earn a basic...

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9/15/2019
12:57 pm GMT+0200
News

United States: Presidential candidate Bill de Blasio chooses a Federal Jobs Guarantee over a UBI

9/15/2019

Bill de Blasio. Picture credit to: UPI. Bill de Blasio, New York City mayor and Democratic Party candidate for the United States 2020 presidential elections, is firmly against Universal Basic Income...

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9/13/2019
11:38 am GMT+0200
Opinion

9/13/2019

With help from an incredible team of software developers, economists, and supporters, we have created the UBIcalculator. The project has taken over a year to construct. This is...

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9/12/2019
10:00 am GMT+0200
Interviews

United States: Interview with Jonathan Herzog, Democratic Candidate for Congress in New York’s 10th District

9/12/2019

by Dawn Howard  Jonathan Herzog is a Democratic candidate currently running for US Congress in New York’s 10th District. He is attempting to unseat Rep. Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House...

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9/11/2019
12:10 pm GMT+0200
Blogs, Opinion, The Independentarian

The Future We Need

9/11/2019

This is the first guest post on The Indepentarian Blog. Welcome, Rahul. Author: Rahul Basu The Future We Need This is a comment on Karl Widerquist’s excellent proposal for a People’s Endowment....

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9/10/2019
1:35 pm GMT+0200
Events, News & Events

Plunder of the Commons: a manifesto for sharing public wealth

9/10/2019

On wednesday, the 2nd October 2019, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm, professor Guy Standing will be presenting his new book "Plunder of the Commons: a manifesto for sharing public wealth" at the London...

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9/09/2019
3:39 pm GMT+0200
News, News & Events

Canada: Research on advantages of Canada Child Benefit

9/09/2019

Floyd Marinescu The Canadian pressure group UBI Works is continuing its mission to demonstrate the benefits of basic income.  The latest piece of work it has commissioned will research the benefits...

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