This article considers the relation between basic income, questions of housing and issues of access to land.
“Who?” and “How?” – What the public thinks of a Basic Income
A survey on basic income conducted by the Sheffield Equality Group concludes public support for a Basic Income has the potential to be strong.
A World Without Work
What would a world without “work” – those scare quotes are important – really look like? The following is openly utopian – hopefully in the best possible sense of that word – but its inspiration essentially boils down to the maximization of time and the minimization of worry. I assume a lot and there are certainly gaps, practical […]
Het Goeie Leven (The Good Life)
Today Cinqo and the Association for Basic Income in the Netherlands release the music video ‘Het Goeie Leven’ (The Good Life) by Dutch artists Pharao and Yara. The song was made to promote the universal basic income in an original and positive way. Basic Income is a hot topic in the European Union as more […]
Joining the Dots
With all this talk of millions turning to food banks and the real employment problem that remains behind the superficially rosy picture, why aren’t the dots being joined
A Necessary marriage: Trade Unions & Basic Income
Unless trade unions start considering proposals like basic income, they risk condemning themselves to irrelevance.
Overview of Basic Income – Another Angry Voice
This has been reprinted with kind permission from Another Angry Voice and is available (along with a great many other interesting articles) here. It has excellent introduction to some of the arguments in favour of Basic Income and some of the challenges that confront it at both the levels of principle and practicality. Universal Basic […]
Documentary: ‘Basic Income, a Cultural Impulse’
This film-essay by Daniel Häni and Enno Schmidt (2008) that introduces the idea of an unconditional basic income.
Open Letter to ‘Benefits Officer’
The following is a letter me and my friend “Steven” wrote after having received notice from the council that both his Job Seeker’s Allowance and Housing Benefits were being stopped. The reasons for the stopping were not given any more specificity than ‘Failed to Sign’. I assure the reader that there were such reasons behind […]
Citizen Income: Potential Ways Forward
On March 4th, there was held an, interesting and timely debate on basic/citizen’s income. The event, chaired by Labour MP John McDonnell, is part of a wider series of events that form part of a People’s Parliament designed to reconnect citizens with the political process. The speakers were Malcolm Torry, author of ‘Money for Everyone‘; […]
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