Basic Income News
Germany: New website with English materials and texts
The German Basic Income Network (Netzwerk Grundeinkommen) has extended its website to include some English material. It hopes to offer more material in English step-by-step. So far, the English text includes a definition of Basic Income; the structure, work and aims of the German network; an overview about models and approaches to Basic Security and [...]
INDIAN BIG PILOT PROJECTS introductory slideshow
Gwang-eun Choi has created a slide show introducing the Basic Income pilot projects that have been taking place in India since January 2011
BIG KAHUNA Basic Income Plan for New Zealand
The Big Kahuna website outlines a detailed proposal for reform of New Zealand’s tax and welfare system. The proposal includes a basic income.
WEB DISCUSSION OF BIG
The TED website, which includes web discussions on various topics, has begun a discussion of BIG.
GERMANY: Basic Income Network obtains 50,000 Facebook followers (CORRECTION)
Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen, a Facebook page in German, obtained its 50,000th follower in the summer of 2011. The page was created by Daniel Häni and Benjamin Hohlmann in Basel, Switzerland. The popularity of this site is just a small sign of the extent to which the BIG movement is taking off in German-speaking countries from the [...]
NAMIBIAN BIG Coalition: new and expanded website
The website now features a new design, more publications and presentations as well as a collection of articles, sound bites and TV recordings (in English and German) about the BIG campaign and the BIG pilot project from 2009 to 2011. It is online at: www.bignam.org
GUY STANDING AND THE PRECARIAT
A short article by Guy Standing, which draws on his new book The Precariat – The New Dangerous Class (Bloomsbury)
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