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Student talent night raises thousands for UBI Taiwan’s single-parent basic income program
Students at Taipei’s Forum Music Auditorium raised funds for UBI Taiwan’s single-parent basic income program through a talent night sponsored by Ascent Academy.
BIEN 40th anniversary: The 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s
BIEN in the 1980s What if your income didn't depend on having a job? The 1980s — mass unemployment, factories closing, machines arriving — pushed that question into the open. In September 1986, around sixty people gathered in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, and turned it...
UNLOCKING NEW PATHWAYS FOR ERADICATING POVERTY BEYOND GROWTH
A roadmap for eradicating poverty beyond growth Together with United Nations agencies, governments, civil society, academics, trade unions and others, the former Special Rapporteur is developing a Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth. The Roadmap will be...
BIEN Invites Contributors to Share Memories for 40th Anniversary Oral History Project
As the Basic Income Earth Network prepares to mark its 40th anniversary, BIEN is inviting longtime members, contributors, affiliates, activists, scholars, and supporters to take part in its 40th Anniversary Oral History Project. The project will collect personal...
The idea that could fix the economy overnight | Guy Standing video on UBI
Guy Standing is professor of Development Studies at SOAS and co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network. He is best known as a long-standing and prominent advocate of Universal Basic Income, but he is also responsible for redefining and revitalising the term...
Sanders Sovereign Wealth Fund Plan Would Give US Public ‘Direct Ownership Stake’ in AI Giants
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday announced he will soon introduce legislation that would give the American public “a direct ownership stake” in the largest artificial intelligence companies in the US by establishing a sovereign wealth fund, which would ensure everyone...
BIEN Collaboration with the UN Special Rapporteur
Since 2025, BIEN has had the pleasure of collaborating with the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter. Together with our partner, Equal Right, we have submitted inputs on how Basic Income can contribute to the Special...
BIEN Treasurer Lindsay Stirton has completed the Rio Marathon
Following several months of hard training (and with some concern an Achilles tendon injury might be getting in the way), our Treasurer Lindsay Stirton last Sunday completed the Rio Marathon. Congratulations for a huge achievement!! Lindsay ran his 42K in support of...
Philosophy Compass articles on Basic Income Published
New open access publications on basic income and sustainable welfare Two new articles in Philosophy Compass examine the role of basic income (BI) in the green transformation of advanced welfare states: “Basic Income—A Transformative Policy for Sustainable...
Basic Income for the Arts in Ireland – From Pilot to Permanent
Please join us for the eighth and final event in our special series of discussions dedicated to reflecting on what we can learn from the Irish Basic Income for the Arts Pilot and its change to Permanent. The Government of Ireland ran a Basic Income pilot that began in...
BIEN Congresses
The next annual BIEN Congress will occur August 19th-22th at the Toronto Metropolitan University. The BIEN Congress will not be occurring in USA this year.
Theme: Basic Income and the Polycrisis: The Key to Unlocking the Puzzle 🔑
See pictures from the 24th BIEN CONGRESS in Maricá & Niterói here.
