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14th October 2020

Basic Income Basics: Why Basic Income is Good for Freedom

By Catarina Neves and Roberto Merrill ‘In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the thought of Read More

6th October 2020

Our October monthly update is out

Our monthly roundup of UBI news is out. Read it all here. And if you like it, why not subscribe to it?

15th September 2020

Basic Income and the (endless) coronavirus crisis

It is now nearly six months since the first national lockdown was imposed in the UK to try to rein in the rate of Covid infection and avoid overwhelming the Read More

10th September 2020

Starmer hasn’t backed universal basic income yet. Here’s why he should.

In her article of 20 July, Anna Coote dismisses basic income on account of political and practical problems. In fact, it is probably true to claim that ‘Labourists’ comprise a Read More

1st September 2020

Our September newsletter is out

Our monthly newsletter is out. It has been a busy month for Basic Income : UBI trials in Germany; UBI in the political mainstream; more UBI Lab Network labs launched. Read More

21st August 2020

Our submission to the Work and Pensions Committee

Back in May, the UK Parliament’s Work and Pensions Committee launched an inquiry “to look at how prepared DWP [Department of Work and Pensions] and its Jobcentre Plus network is Read More