PILOT schemes aimed at handing every man, woman and child a basic, flat-rate income will be drawn up by four Scottish councils within the next year. Nicola Sturgeon pledged to fund research into a ...

India is going to endorse a Universal Basic Income (UBI), according to a leading advocate of the system. The world’s largest democracy will release a report in January stating that UBI is “basically ...

After demonitisation, the Narendra Modi government is considering the idea of a Universal Basic Income for all its citizens, according to one of the leading advocates of the scheme. In simple words, ...

All pilots have shown that basic income makes people more productive, not less. Shouldn't everyone receive a stake in society's wealth? Could we create a fairer world by granting a guaranteed income ...

Last week, the research arm of the world’s most well-known artificial intelligence (AI) company released a large study on universal basic income. OpenResearch, a division of OpenAI, gave 3,000 random ...

VIENNA (Alliance News) - The centuries-old concept of a guaranteed unconditional regular payment, or universal basic income, has returned to the attention of the world at the start of 2017 with ...

Switzerland is preparing to vote on proposals to introduce a universal basic income, which campaigners say would erase poverty and remove dependence on welfare. The initiative's founders have ...

Let’s assume that we don’t have a Hermione Granger time-turner, so can’t go back to 2010 and institute a massive programme of home insulation and energy efficiency, so every British home is warm, ...

Scotland is now running trials on implementing a universal basic income. And the initiative should be rolled across Britain, Natalie Bennett writes. When the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) first ...

Could Labour implement universal basic income? The battle over this radical policy is moving gradually into the mainstream. By Rudy schulkind Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has called universal ...

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Guy Standing in this lecture on his latest book, Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen explains why a basic income has now become such an urgent necessity. Shouldn't everyone receive a stake in ...