This essay begins and ends with a genuine question: Given the proven desirability and financial feasibility of a Citizen’s Income, why does a Citizen’s Income not appear to be politically Read More
The Adam Smith Institute is advocating a Citizen’s Income as the ideal benefits system. The radical journal Red Pepper has recently repeated its call for a Citizen’s Income. The Housing Read More
To accompany the launch of Money for Everyone: Why we need a Citizen’s Income by the Policy Press on the 27th June, there is now a podcast on the Citizen’s Read More
BIEN now stands for ‘Basic Income Earth Network’. Once every two years BIEN holds a congress, and this year’s showed just how appropriate the name now is and how inappropriate Read More
In our last edition we published a research note which employed EUROMOD [note]EUROMOD was developed from the previous POLIMOD by the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Read More
Introduction In the second issue of the Citizen’s Income Newsletter in 2010 we published a research note which employed a Department for Work and Pensions spreadsheet to calculate the effects Read More
On the 27th January the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee published a report, Decision making and appeals in the benefits system (HC313) The last two paragraphs read as Read More
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better, Allen Lane, 2009, xvii + 331 pp, hbk, 1 846 14039 6, £20 We Read More
(Fabian Society, 2001), 36+iv pp, £6.95. (A revised version appears in Working Brief, issue 128, October 2001, published by the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion.) Order this book Responding Read More
(Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2001), 59+v pp, £13.95, ISBN 1 84263 036 9.Order this book This report is based on a close study of recruitment practice in 26 companies of varying Read More