Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) was founded in 1986 as an international organisation that fosters informed discussion about a Basic Income.
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Basic Income Earth retweeted
What if financial security was the key to climate justice? In Tuvalu, our project #UC4CJ is piloting unconditional cash for #ClimateJustice. The concept is simple: give activists the financial security they need to sustain their work, no strings attached.
bit.ly/3GahkQV
Basic Income Earth retweeted
We interviewed Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Laureate and 'Godfather of AI' on job automation and his support for UBI
Here are some highlights
(0:00) Job Loss Threat
(1:44) UBI: Necessary but Not Enough
(2:45) Wales UBI Pilot
(4:13) Tech Leaders Back UBI
(6:08) Hinton's Reply to Yann LeCun
(6:54) Taxing AI for UBI
(7:22) UBI Models Explained
(13:57) AI Could Automate All Jobs in 50 years
Basic Income Earth retweeted
🇧🇷 BIEN 2025 has come to a close, but the energy that flowed between Maricá and Niterói continues to resonate / O BIEN 2025 chegou ao fim, mas a energia que fluiu entre Maricá e Niterói continua a ressoar.
Thank you very much for coming! Muito obrigado por vir! @BasicIncomeOrg
Basic Income Earth retweeted
Over 1,000 Canadians wrote personal letters to the Liberal leadership candidates about basic income — non-liberals and liberals alike.
A common theme was AI and job automation, from AI experts and 1st person accounts of being replaced.
Here are some of their letters. 🧵
Basic Income Earth retweeted
Basic income has already worked for decades.
Guaranteed basic income lowers poverty, like child/senior benefits.
UBI shares common resources, like Alaska's oil dividend.
Critics usually ignore this and debate their own strawman instead. 🧵
Basic Income Earth retweeted
My article, “Functional Finance and the Sustainability of Universal Basic Income,” is now available free. It finds MMT/FF theory implies UBI is sustainable, but we'll still need tools like taxes to counteract the inflationary pressure UBI causes.
doi.org/10.1515/bis-2023-002…
Basic Income Earth retweeted
NEW POST: Why guaranteed basic income is becoming a key anti-poverty strategy. Interest in #UBI surged in California after the success of the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration. basicincometoday.com/why-gua…
Basic Income Earth retweeted
NEW: Data from @MayorCantrell & @CityOfNOLA’s #GuaranteedIncome pilot shows higher employment rates, improved financial well-being, and better housing security. The program focused on “opportunity youth” aged 16-24 in Orleans Parish.
Read the report here: guaranteedincomeworks.org/da…
Basic Income Earth retweeted
"The Home of the FAT Homeless," solo rap, by Karl Smith Widerquist (of Remember Alice? & The Submonotones), Bath, UK, 31 August 2024. Filmed by @AlexHowlettUBI.
(@scottsantens, @MichaelALewis10, @TLMcMR, @TheUBIGuy, @BasicIncomeOrg, #BIEN2024)
youtu.be/7llOrCO_JAs
Basic Income Earth retweeted
Many people including CEOs have come to me asking about Sam Altman's UBI pilot.
Unlike most critics, we actually read the research.
Basic income ended poverty with minimal impact on work beyond single parents. People took risks to find better jobs, retrain & escape abuse.
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Basic Income Earth retweeted
Such a brilliant strategy day with food producers and Basic Income crew from across the UK gathering to strategise on our campaign calling for a Basic Income for all agricultural workers in the UK ✨@MggVegbox
Basic Income Earth retweeted
Dr. Malcolm Torry has probably done more microsimulation studies of basic income policy than anyone. I finally met him at the @BasicIncomeOrg conference in Bath yesterday, where he described @ThePolicyEngine to other attendees as "the easy to use microsimulation machine"!
Basic Income Earth retweeted
We're at the Guildhall in Bath today for the #BIEN2024 UK Day, hosted by @BasicIncomeCon and hearing from a range of voices on the need to reform the social security system in the UK. @BasicIncomeOrg @UBILabNetwork @Autonomy_Inst – at Bath, England
Basic Income Earth retweeted
I've been extremely lucky to have @w_stronge, Catarina Neves and Sarath Davala at the launch of my book "Unconditional Freedom: UBI and Social Power" (Pluto Press) at the BIEN Congress (Bath). The core conclusion? Our lives are not for sale, and UBI can help in this. More soon!
Basic Income Earth retweeted
I'm at day 3 of the BIEN Congress (#BIEN2024). Last night at the conference dinner the Americans at the Congress got together to talk about bringing the BIEN Congress to the USA in 2026. We've wanted to do this for decades, but maybe this will be the time. We'll see.
Basic Income Earth retweeted
Really engaging session with @ubi4farmers exploring the serious challenges for #farmers today and asking if a #BasicIncome could be part of the solution.
#BIEN2024 #Bath
Basic Income Earth retweeted
BREAKING: @CamdenCouncil to investigate a ‘basic income’ for young care leavers.
"Camden Council is considering giving care-experienced young people in the borough a “basic income” & is to commission an external provider to help it design a pilot project."
fitzrovianews.com/2024/08/30…
Basic Income Earth retweeted
Today I'm in Bath at @BasicIncomeOrg Congress - really interesting event - I'm talking about UBI+ Basic Services and Citizenship. Fascinating to hear the increasingly municipally led developments for #basicincome
@CitizenForward @citizen_network @Citizensincome @DemeMove
ALT Simon with Everyday Citizenship