News

Recent developments, June 2016

The new Compass report on Citizen’s Income is now out: Universal Basic Income: An idea whose time has come? John McDonnell MP, the Shadow Chancellor, has said that the Labour Read More

Poll finds that two thirds of the British public support a Universal Basic Income

The Independent has published the results of a Europe-wide poll that finds that 62% of the British public support a Basic or Citizen’s Income: click here to read the article. This Read More

Citizen’s Income News: May 2016

The National reports that the Scottish National Party conference has backed calls for a flagship policy giving all adults in an independent Scotland a “citizen’s income” to lift people out Read More

Debate report

Debating London, The Basic Income Debate, on Wednesday 6th January 2016 ‘Debating London’ stages regular debates in Vauxhall in South London. The aim is to train expert debaters, so those Read More

Citizen’s Income and housing costs

Jules Birch has written an article in The Guardian that tackles the thorny question of the relationship between Citizen’s Income and housing costs: Is Universal Basic Income too simplistic to Read More

17th April 2016

Co-operatives UK new report, ‘Not Alone’

Co-operatives UK has published a report, Not Alone: Trade union and co-operative solutions for self-employed workers. The ‘precariat index’ developed in the report combines indicators that measure levels of self-employment Read More