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6th June 2011

Citizen’s Income News, Summer 2011

The Institute for Fiscal Studies has published Universal Credit: A Preliminary Analysis. Their researchers write: ‘Our empirical analysis in Sections 4 and 5 illustrates well the constraints all governments face Read More

7th February 2011

Citizen’s Income News, Spring 2011

On the 23rd November the Daily Mail summarised the story of the 2008 financial meltdown, and Gordon Brown’s reaction to it, as told in a new book, Brown at 10: Read More

7th February 2011

Iran’s economic reforms usher in a de facto Citizen’s Income

The concept of a Basic or Citizen’s Income is virtually unknown in Iran. In nearly three years of discussion and debate over the government’s new economic reforms, there has been Read More

7th October 2010

Conference Report: The BIEN Congress in Sao Paulo

The Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) has come of age. It held its fourteenth international congress in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo on June 30-July 3, 2010, and was Read More

7th October 2010

Citizen’s Income News, Autumn 2010

One of the more interesting pieces of news to come out of the recent Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) congress is that Iran might become the first country to establish Read More

7th September 2010

Obituary: Charlotte Markson

Charlotte Markson, a Citizen’s Income Trust trustee since 2006 and often a source of valuable advice before that, died on the 31st July after a long battle with leukemia. Charlotte Read More