4th April 2018

Sam Royston, Broken Benefits

Sam Royston, Broken Benefits: What’s gone wrong with welfare reform, Policy Press, xii + 387 pp, 1 4473 3326 5, pbk, £15 This book might be better described as a Read More

4th April 2018

Roger Brown, The Inequality Crisis

Roger Brown, The Inequality Crisis: The facts and what we can do about it, Policy Press, 2017, xii + 288 pp, pbk, 1 4473 3758 4, £12.99 As Kate Pickett’s Read More

4th April 2018

Who should receive a Citizen’s Basic Income?

To suggest that a Citizen’s Basic Income should be paid to ‘citizens’ is to begin a discussion, not to complete it. A discussion of citizenship will not on its own Read More

4th April 2018

Participative exercises at the Citizen’s Basic Income Day at the LSE

During the Citizen’s Basic Income Day at the London School of Economics on Tuesday 20th February 2018, participants took part in a number of exercises. Here we describe the exercises Read More

3rd April 2018

New Geoff Crocker video on Citizen’s Basic Income funded by perpetual deficit

To see a new Geoff Crocker presentation on Basic Income funded by perpetual deficit: A radical heterodox proposal, click here.              

2nd April 2018

New IPPR report proposes a universal capital dividend

The Institute for Public Policy Research has published Our Common Wealth: A Citizens’ Wealth Fund for the UK: A declining labour share of national income, together with unequal capital ownership, Read More

26th March 2018

Four EUROMOD working papers

The Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex has published four EUROMOD working papers relevant to the Citizen’s Basic Income Debate. 1. Diego Collado has written Financial Read More

19th March 2018

Two new articles about Citizen’s Basic Income

Amelia Womack has written How a universal basic income could help women in abusive relationships in The Independent: … Unlike benefits or wages, UBI payments would be attached to and follow individuals, irrespective Read More

16th March 2018

An update on the Finnish experiment

The Finnish experiment, which has made the unemployment benefit paid to two thousand unemployed people unconditional for a period of two years, is now half way through. Kela, the government agency Read More

14th March 2018

March 2018 update: Beveridge Rebooted at the LSE

To read the Citizen’s Basic Income Trust’s March 2018 update, click here.