19th September 2016

Members of Parliament debate Citizen’s Income

On Wednesday 14th September a Westminster Hall debate took place about a Universal Basic Income. To watch the debate, click here. (The UBI debate begins at 16.37)  The written record Read More

19th September 2016

Tony Atkinson’s most recent advocacy for a Participation Income

In a recent interview for Social Europe, Professor Tony Atkinson reiterates his support for a Participation Income. Click here to read the interview, and also to hear a podcast of Read More

31st August 2016

Book launch, Monday 10th October

A new book: Citizen’s Basic Income: A Christian social policy by Malcolm Torry will be published by Darton, Longman and Todd on the 29th September. An event to launch the Read More

3rd August 2016

The way we work is changing, but the welfare state hasn’t kept pace with the times

This article was first published on the ‘Conversation’ website: We are grateful for permission to republish it here. Mechanisation. Robots. The digital economy. The gig economy. The sharing economy. The Read More

3rd August 2016

A new book: The Feasibility of Citizen’s Income

Palgrave Macmillan has published a new book: The Feasibility of Citizen’s Income, by Malcolm Torry To order the book click here If you can’t afford the book then you might Read More

18th June 2016

A new Institute for Social and Economic Research working paper

EUROMOD Working Paper Series EM5/16 An evaluation of a strictly revenue neutral Citizen’s Income scheme by Malcolm Torry Publication date 17 Jun 2016 Click here to read the working paper Abstract Read More

24th May 2016

Poll finds that two thirds of the British public support a Universal Basic Income

The Independent has published the results of a Europe-wide poll that finds that 62% of the British public support a Basic or Citizen’s Income: click here to read the article. This Read More

6th May 2016

An attempt to study the intra-household transfers generated by a Citizen’s Income scheme

The information that it is possible to extract from the EUROMOD [1] microsimulation programme without undertaking a substantial amount of work is limited. There are two main reasons for this: Read More

12th April 2016

Methods for calculating the cost, gains and losses of a Citizen’s Income scheme

This paper sets out three methods for calculating the gains and losses that households would experience at the point of implementation and/or the total net cost of a Citizen’s Income Read More

13th March 2016

Childcare costs

Introduction The Citizen’s Income Trust has suggested replacing Child Tax Credits and Child Benefit with a higher flat rate Child Benefit and merging the income tax-free personal allowance, the National Read More