26th October 2014

Citizen’s Income News: Autumn 2014

In April the UK Parliament’s Work and Pensions Committee published a report on the implementation of Universal Credit: ‘We continue to support the policy objectives of UC, particularly improving incentives Read More

19th August 2014

Recent articles on Citizen’s Income

Lauren Razavi has written a thorough description and discussion of a Citizen’s Income in the New Statesman: ‘A Citizen’s Income of £71 a week would make Britain fairer’. The article references Citizen’s Read More

18th August 2014

More press interest in Citizen’s Income

There has been some interesting press coverage of a Citizen’s Income during the last couple of weeks. Larry Elliott, in the Guardian, dedicated an entire column to the possibility. More Read More

31st July 2014

A lot has happened during the last few months

My apologies to our blog readers. It’s even longer than I thought since I wrote a blog post for the Citizen’s Income Trust’s website. In fact, it’s over a year. Read More

28th June 2014

Obituary

Professor Ailsa McKay, 1963-2014 Ailsa McKay, Professor of Economics at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), died on the 5th March at the all too early age of 50 after a feisty Read More

28th June 2014

A report on a Citizen’s Income meeting at the Scottish Parliament

A seminar and round-table discussion entitled ‘Beyond Welfare Reform to a Citizen’s Income: the desirability and feasibility of a CI scheme’, was hosted by Jim Eadie, Member of the Scottish Read More

28th June 2014

Pilot Projects in India

A report on a seminar led by Professor Guy Standing at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, on the 5th March 2014 At the seminar Read More

28th June 2014

The People’s Parliament, 4th March 2014

Citizen’s Income: a minor policy change that would transform our society The People’s Parliament ‘is a discussion series held in Parliament, hosted by John McDonnell MP with the aim of Read More

28th June 2014

The Green Party reaffirms its commitment to a Citizen’s Income

On Saturday 1st March the Green Party Spring Conference passed the following resolution: We call upon [Green Party Executive Committee] to establish a working group (WG) drawing on expertise in Read More

28th June 2014

Citizen’s Income News, Summer 2014

The Institute for Fiscal Studies has published its Green Budget for 2014: ‘There is an inevitable down–side of policies that focus increases in generosity on those with the lowest incomes. Read More