Citizen's Basic Income

An unconditional, nonwithdrawable income paid to every individual as a right of citizenship.

The Citizen’s Basic Income Trust promotes debate on the desirability and feasibility of a Universal Basic Income.

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We have some exciting news about the future of CBIT

2024 marks four decades of Citizen’s Basic Income Trust (CBIT). Across almost my entire lifespan, CBIT has led and coordinated basic income research in Britain and beyond in ways that Read More

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Report on the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Congress

When I was invited to give the Opening Address to the Congress, held in Seoul, South Korea, at the end of August, I wondered ‘What could I talk about?’. However, Read More

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The campaign for a Basic Income – more marathon than sprint

Every once in a while we get a reminder that the campaign for a Basic Income is more a marathon than a sprint. Thomas Paine was proposing one as far Read More

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MALCOLM TORRY: CITIZEN’S BASIC INCOME: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

Malcolm Torry: Citizen’s Basic Income: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2020, 336pp, £hbk 115.00; pbk 30.95; ebk 25.00, ISBN: 9781788117869; 9781800376021; 9781788117876. An earlier version of this review first Read More

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Robots alone might not save us, but they can help

A sci-fi film response: Our hero wakes. Using her 3D food printer she prints out a full English breakfast, eating it in the front room of her flat – part Read More

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

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

  • Coronavirus

    The Coronavirus/Citizen's Basic Income debate

  • Microsimulation results

    2020 microsimulation results for a Recovery Basic Income

  • Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income

    Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income

  • Basic Income: And how we can make it happen

    Basic Income: And how we can make it happen

  • A Basic Income Handbook

    A Basic Income Handbook

  • The Case for Universal Basic Income

    The Case for Universal Basic Income

  • The Feasibility of Citizen’s Basic Income

    The Feasibility of Citizen's Basic Income

  • Why we need a Citizen’s Basic Income

    Why we Need a Citizen's Basic Income

  • Introductory Booklet

    Our introductory booklet