6th January 2020

Specifying and securing a social minimum

A new book,  Specifying and Securing a Social Minimum in the Battle against Poverty, edited by Toomas Kotkas, Ingrid Leijten and Frans Pennings, has been published by Hart Publishing. The Read More

3rd January 2020

New videos on land rent as a means of paying for a Citizen’s Basic Income

Mick Reiss has issued three educational videos that argue for a Citizen’s Basic Income paid for by charging rent on the value of land. The first video contains a thought Read More

1st January 2020

A conference on pilot projects in Portugal in July

There will be a conference on the political theory and social policy analysis of Citizen’s Basic Income experiments from the 1st to the 3rd July 2020 at the ​University of Read More

30th December 2019

Microsimulation research results for 2019

The Institute for Social and Economic Research has published up to date microsimulation research results on illustrative Citizen’s Basic Income schemes, along with a historical survey of the research process Read More

23rd December 2019

Videos from the 2019 BIEN congress

Videos from the 2019 BIEN Congress in Hyderabad last August are now available online. Click here to see all of the videos.             .

19th December 2019

Prize-winning article on income-tested benefits

An article by Jane Millar and Peter Whiteford has won the 2019 Best Paper Prize of the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security (FISS) sponsored by the Journal of Read More

10th December 2019

LSE event about Universal Basic Income and Universal Basic Services

On the 26th November the London School of Economics held an event about Universal Basic Income and Universal Basic Services. For further details of the event, click here. And to 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