Basic Income News

A small group of individuals active in art, design, film and politics has launched a new webpage with the idea of introducing the idea of an unconditional basic income to its visitors interactively. More than 40 clips cover various aspects and answer questions about the unconditional basic income. The webpage is only available in German [...]

James Robertson talks frankly about democratising our money supply. Money as debt is not sustainable.

The Basic Income pilot project in India, conducted by the Self Employed Women’s Association and the India Development Foundation, has been making progress and may provide interesting statistical data in the future, according to information by Guy Standing, professor of economic security at the University of Bath and co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network [...]

The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) published a poll about the question “Do you believe in a universal Basic Income Guarantee?  What amount would be satisfactory?” on March 24, 2012. It resulted in a support of a basic income of more than fifty percent. Unfortunately, there is no information about the number of [...]

The Pirate Party in Germany achieved another success. It gained 7.4 percent in their first participation in the Saarland state election on March 25, 2012 and entered the federal state parliament thus. The German Pirate Party has become known for its support of an unconditional basic income as solution for the heavily criticized existing German [...]

Our society has evolved in many aspects, except one … our social system.
We need to introduce matching solutions to our problems, but what’s happening at the moment is ignoring instead of solving.
Our politicians have prostituted themselves in order to keep their positions.
If we rely on them, we will still be waiting in 100 years time.


The Cato Institute, a non-partisan Washington, D.C. think tank founded in 1977 to promote and disseminate libertarian views, is in danger. Due to a highly unusual and, in hindsight, highly unfortunate shareholder structure for a non-profit, it finds itself at risk of a hostile takeover by two of its co-founders, billionaire businessmen Charles and David [...]

Palgrave Macmillan, part of the Macmillan Group of publishers, is a global academic publisher of textbooks, journals, monographs, professional, and reference works. For several years now, the publisher been putting together a book series on the basic income guarantee. The new series, “Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee,” has released its first two books, Basic Income [...]

Bruna and Marcus are Social Innovators and they have been developing the Basic Income Project in Brasile for two years, a project that is unique in the world. The 70 inhabitants of the town of Quantiga Velho receive 30 Real monthly. Marcus and Bruna tell us what are the effects of this new right, that is conquering the world.

The Welfare Working Group requested Treasury to model a specific Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) scheme for New Zealand. As a result Treasury published an assessment for a universal and unconditional payment of $300 per week to all individuals aged 16 years and over, extra to those families with children. Treasury concludes that tax and equity [...]