Research & Analysis

13th May 2020

A Modern Guide to Citizen’s Basic Income: A multidisciplinary approach

Malcolm Torry’s new book new, A Modern Guide to Citizen’s Basic Income: A multidisciplinary approach, was published in June 2020 The book can be ordered here. The ebook is £25. Read More

10th May 2020

New European opinion poll on Citizen’s Basic Income

FEPS (the Foundation for European Progressive Studies) has published the results of a wide-ranging opinion survey: Across the EU14 a plurality of citizens support the idea of universal basic income. Read More

6th May 2020

More results from the Finland experiment published

At a presentation on Wednesday 6th May, Kela, the Finnish social security agency, gave further results from the first year of its Basic Income experiment. The trial group was 2,000 Read More

4th May 2020

New research on the financial resilience of households

Researchers at the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics have published research on household financial resilience. Some households are less resilient to financial Read More

3rd May 2020

The coronavirus/Citizen’s Basic Income debate

A variety of resources is now available to help us to think through the relationship between the coronavirus crisis and the Citizen’s Basic Income debate. Our article, ‘Coronavirus: and the Read More

1st May 2020

Changing benefits systems can have a larger effect on health inequality than changing Income Tax

A new The Lancet – Public Health article suggests that benefit reforms are more likely to reduce health inequalities in Scotland than tax reforms. Researchers have used the microsimulation programme Read More