16th November 2018

New World Bank report

The World Bank has published a new report, Toward a New Social Contract: Taking on distributional tensions in Europe and Central Asia. The nature of the initiatives implemented to realize Read More

8th November 2018

The House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee reports on Universal Credit

The House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee has issued a report on Universal Credit: … At best, evidence on the effectiveness of sanctions is mixed, and at worst, it Read More

8th November 2018

The Finland experiment: news and opinion

Jurgen De Wispelaere, Antti Halmetoja and Ville-Veikko Pulkka have written an article about the Finnish Basic Income experiment: … The Finnish government’s refusal to extend or expand the experiment may not Read More

5th November 2018

Young adults’ perceptions of Basic Income

Carlos Montaño García at the University of Leeds has written a master’s degree dissertation titled ‘What is the Problem with Basic Income? A Critical Evaluation of the Debates, Ideological Foundations Read More

4th November 2018

Means-testing is not inevitable

The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s budget statement on the 29th October [1] contained nearly thirty mentions of Universal Credit, the major change being a one thousand pound increase in the Read More

4th November 2018

A request for money

The rapid increase in the extent of the Citizen’s Basic Income debate has made some significant demands on our slender funds this year. Demand for our publications has required us Read More

18th October 2018

The BBC on Universal Credit and Citizen’s Basic Income

The BBC reports that the Universal Credit rollout will be delayed again and that changes might be made to the means-tested and work-tested benefit. Paul Spicker has written a commentary Read More

15th October 2018

Citizen’s Basic Income discussed in a new Compass publication

The new Compass report, The Causes and Cures of Brexit, contains a chapter on Citizen’s Basic Income by Barb Jacobson: … Basic income assumes the best – that people can decide Read More

2nd October 2018

Another fourth edition of the Newsletter …

In December 2017 we wrote this: Just once before, during its thirty-three-year history, has the Citizen’s Basic Income Trust published a fourth edition of the Citizen’s Income Newsletter: in 2005, Read More

1st October 2018

The Political-Economy Fallouts Of Universal Basic Income Schemes

Carlo D’Ippoliti has written an article for Social Europe: ‘The Political-Economy Fallouts Of Universal Basic Income Schemes‘. D’Ippoliti lists some of the political constraints relating to job guarantee programmes, and then Read More