The European Citizens Initiative (ECI)1 for Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)2 officially ended on Tuesday January 14th 23.59pm, after collecting at least 285,042 statements of support from EU citizens in 28 countries.3 However, it did not succeed in collecting the one million signatures which would have obliged the European Commission (EC) to consider UBI as a […]
This past year has been the one when it finally came out in the open that we’re all under surveillance – on the internet, on the phone – 24 hours a day. It certainly wasn’t news to any who have had to rely at any time on means-tested, increasingly conditional benefits in order to pay […]
Channel 4 are facing criticism for their new TV series Benefits Street. Before the show was even aired the participants were complaining that they had been misled over the nature of the show and how they were portrayed. When the show was aired there was a flurry of death threats to the participants on twitter […]
An unconditional basic income could help reignite hope in a large group of young people’s lives who feel they have nothing to live for.
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