5th December 2019

New research on Conditional Cash Transfers

A recently published London School of Economics Ph.D. thesis, ‘Essays on conditional cash transfers, targeting and educational outcomes: evidence from Chile’, by Cristián Crespo Rojas, concludes that Have CCTs [Conditional Read More

27th November 2019

The Centre for Welfare Reform statement of support

The Centre for Welfare Reform has published a statement of support for Citizen’s Basic Income. Community groups working to advance social justice and promote the testing of Universal Basic Income Read More

25th November 2019

The Labour Party manifesto promises a pilot project

The Labour Party has issued its manifesto for the 2019 General Election The Labour Party manifesto for the 2019 General Election contains a single mention of ‘Universal Basic Income’: an Read More

20th November 2019

A review of the Green Party manifesto Universal Basic Income proposal

The Citizen’s Basic Income Trust’s review of the Green Party manifesto’s section on Universal Basic Income The Green Party’s manifesto for the 2019 General Election proposes a Universal Basic Income Read More

19th November 2019

Peter Sloman, Transfer State

Peter Sloman, Transfer State: The idea of a guaranteed income and the politics of redistribution in modern Britain, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, xiv + 302 pp, 0-19-881326-2, hbk, £65 Read More

19th November 2019

The Institute for Public Policy Research report on Universal Credit, and Paul Spicker’s review

The Institute for Public Policy Research has published a new report, Social (in)security: Reforming the UK’s social safety net. The concept behind universal credit (UC) – that integrating working-age benefits would Read More

16th November 2019

New Economics Foundation: Weekly National Allowance’s effect on Universal Credit

In March, the New Economics Foundation published a report that recommended that a cash payment, a Weekly National Allowance (WNA), should replace the Income Tax Personal Allowance. The WNA was Read More

15th November 2019

An interactive performance, Sounds Good to Me

Sounds good to me by Cheap Thrills Performance duo Cheap Thrills brings you food for thought in the form of a surrealist performance about Universal Basic Income. Set against the Read More

13th November 2019

Paul Spicker’s paper about the take-up of benefits

Paul Spicker has written a blog post about the take-up of different kinds of benefits. His conclusions are as follows: Arguments about takeup have often centred on means-tested benefits, but Read More

3rd November 2019

Citizen’s Basic Income and Universal Basic Services

A event will be held at the London School of Economics on Tuesday 26th November about Citizen’s Basic Income and Universal Basic Services. What are the arguments for Universal Basic Income Read More