THE BASICS OF UBI

Why ‘Universal Basic Services’ is no alternative to Basic Income
Free ‘universal basic services’ has recently been advocated as a better alternative to a basic income, on the grounds that

‘Universal Basic Income is the best way to distribute an equity stake in productivity’: James Felton Keith
New York’s first queer, black congressional candidate, James Felton Keith, tells The Sociable that a Universal Basic Income is

The right-wing case for basic income
Article orginally published on June 11, 2019 • The idea for a universal basic income, or UBI, is increasingly

Basic Income Has Always Been A Women’s Cause
Article originally published on May28th, 2019. The vibrant debate around the question of basic income has all too often

BASIC INCOME IN WALES – RSA & INDYCUBE
Book Here With prominent business and government leaders backing calls to implement Universal Basic Income (UBI), the idea is

We’ve declared a climate emergency – here’s what universal basic income could do to help the planet
Article originally published on May 17, 2019. Governments around the world are declaring “climate and environmental emergencies” to highlight the

Could social security be the foundation for a growing basic income system?
Basic Income is everywhere these days. The idea that anyone could receive monthly payments to supplement–or even replace–their regular

Alberta could implement guaranteed basic income with no major new funding needed: report
Alberta could reduce poverty and introduce a guaranteed basic income with virtually no new funding by simply tweaking how

100,000 jobs could be lost to robots in Reading, PA over next 20 years.
Thousands of people could be put out of work by robots in reading in the next 20 years. Although

Event: 18th Annual North American Basic Income Congress in NYC, June 15-16, 2019
The 18th Annual North American Basic Income Guarantee (NABIG) Congress will be held June 15-16, 2019 at the Silberman

Top 10 Basic Income Articles of 2018
As a moderator of the /r/BasicIncome subreddit, I read a lot of links every year about UBI, probably around

George McGovern Proposed a Universal Basic Income. It Didn’t Go Well for Him.
Proposing to give every American a basic income hurt George McGovern in 1972. Maybe it will work better for
Newark to Test Universal-Basic-Income Program
Newark mayor Ras Baraka announced last week that the city will pursue a universal-basic-income pilot program that would provide

Obama and Bezos Could Make Basic Income Work
This week, former U.S. President Barack Obama tentatively endorsed the idea of a universal basic income. The fortune of

Making quasi-sense of recent basic income initiatives
Last year, when the Finnish and Canadian trials were, respectively, not renewed and cancelled, the momentum behind universal basic

The BIG Library: Books About Basic Income
People consider me somewhat of an expert on the topic of basic income and so I’m frequently asked for