by Liam Upton | Apr 29, 2015 | News
The Facebook page of BIEN affiliate Basic Income Ireland, has just passed 18,000 likes.
The page is now more popular than any political party in Ireland except one, including the two parties currently in government. It also now has more likes than leading campaign groups the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, the Simon Community and a similar amount of likes as Oxfam Ireland.
Ireland has also recently seen the creation of its first local group, Basic Income Waterford.
For more information, see:
Basic Income Ireland
by Josh Martin | Aug 3, 2014 | News
[Josh Martin]
The following organizations are leading the way for a basic income in Ireland:
Social Justice Ireland and Basic Income Ireland
- (Sources: Social Justice Ireland and Basic Income Ireland)
by Karl Widerquist | Jun 19, 2014 | Research
This article reacts to Yannick Vanderborght’s presentation at the “Basic Income Summer Forum in Dublin on June 7, 2014.
Ian Maleney, “Basic Income Summer Forum.” Irish Left Review, June 11, 2014.
Yannick Vanderborght’s presentation at the “Basic Income Summer Forum” via the Irish Left Review
by Karl Widerquist | Jun 2, 2014 | News
Joe Humphreys
In this interview political philosopher John Baker reacts to French economist Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which has fuelled fierce debate about inequality. Baker makes the case for ‘equality of condition’ and a basic income. The interview is available both in text and in audio.
Joe Humphres, “How equal should we strive to become? (Interview with John Baker).” The Irish Times, Fri, May 16, 2014.
