Renowned French economist Thomas Piketty, best known for his 2013 book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, has been making headlines for his positive comments regarding basic income in a number of blog posts. However, the approach he proposes is not basic income as it is commonly understood. In a blog post published on 13 December, Basic income or fair wage?,
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The French Socialist Party has elected a pro-basic income politician as its candidate for the presidential election this spring.
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Benoit Hamon, a vocal basic income supporter stands a serious chance to become the Socialist candidate for the French presidential election.
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The French Senate recommends experimenting with basic income before considering its implementation nationwide.
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Socialist MP Benoît Hamon is making unconditional basic income a key component of his primary campaign.
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The theme of this year’s World Forum for a Responsible Economy is “Envisioning the economy of the future”. In keeping with this theme, one session–held on Monday, October 10 in Lille–will focus on basic income.
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For a second time this week and third time this year, the French Prime minister mentioned basic income as a possible way to modernize social protection.
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This citizens’ movement was created following demonstrations against the proposed French labour reforms and has since organized several popular gatherings in Paris as well as in dozens of towns in France and abroad.
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Article originally written in French by Basile Durand (MFRB), translated by Henri Geist (MFRB). Answering the meteoric surge of interest provoked by the Finnish proposition to experiment with the basic income, the MFRB organized a conference on March third regarding UBI pilot programs and the Finnish Embassy in Paris. This conference was aimed at promoting understanding of the Finnish proposals
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