Basic Income News

The New website, du basic income au Portugal, has news and information about basic income in Portugal. The language of the site is Portuguese. It’s online at: http://www.rendabasicaincondicional.pt It has a facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/RendimentoBasicoPortugal

On January 14th 2013, the European Commission accepted a petition for European Citizens’ Initiative for Basic Income, triggering a one-year campaign involving all countries in the European Union. If the organizers collect 1 million statements of support for the Basic Income petition from any 1 million out of the 500 million citizens of the European [...]

Blog: Carrico’s, Dale, “p2p is EITHER Pay to Peer OR it is Peers to Precarity”March 23, 2013, The Futurist: A Magazine of Forecasts, Trends, and Ideas about the Future. This blog makes a connection between BIG and peer-to-peer networks. https://www.wfs.org/blogs/dale-carrico/p2p-either-pay-peer-or-it-peers-precarity

Aynur Bashirova – BI News – February 2013 The BIG movement is a grassroots movement, which aims to raise awareness about the Basic Income. It does this by a network of project teams, public events, and media channels. Anyone interested can join the movement from its website, Facebook users can connect its through its Facebook [...]

This blog on Quantitative Easing 3 (QE3) argues that a temporary basic income would be much more equitable and effective way to stimulate the U.S. economy. Flomenhoft finds that the $85 billion per month the Fed is buying mortgage debt and treasury bonds could finance a basic income of $270 per person per month or [...]

Staatsbuergersteuer is a tax system that incorporates a basic income. Joachim Mitschke and Bernd Starkloff are the coauthors of Staatsbuergersteuer, which released its first publication more than 40 years ago. The system incorporates the concept of Buergergeld, a negative income tax, comparable to Basic Income along with other ideas. Their website (available only in German), [...]

This website describes itself as providing, “Self-financing, ecological, sustainable, local integrated development projects for the world’s poor” and “a model for development with creative practical solutions to poverty reduction.” The website includes several papers on debt reform, some of which involve a basic income. http://www.integrateddevelopment.org/index.html

Edited by Johan Nygren, “BipedalJoe,” this website has a large number of articles related to basic income. It’s online at: http://cod-democracy.blogspot.com/ You can contact the editor, Johan Nygren <bipedaljoe@gmail.com>

This page on Scoop.it has links to dozens of websites discussing basic income. It’s curated by Bipedal Joe and online at: http://www.scoop.it/t/basicincome/

BIEN Canada reports that a discussion of Guaranteed Annual (Basic) Income in the Canadian context was held on TV Ontario on November 15th, 2012. It featured Senator Hugh Segal, a long time proponent of Guaranteed Income, as well as Andrew Coyne (columnist with Post Media), Glen Hodgson (chief economist with the Conference Board of Canada), [...]