This event brings together people from the Bitcoin and Basic Income communities to explore where these ideas meet, and how they can strengthen each other. Doing Basic Income the bitcoin way – ...

“We use Bayesian meta-analysis methods to estimate the impact of unconditional cash transfers (UCTs). Aggregating evidence from 115 studies of 72 UCT programs in low- and middle-income countries, we ...

Photo by William Warby on Unsplash South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism named an basic income for artists among six key tasks in its second-half business report, delivered at a ...

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BIEN entered its fourth decade with a closed bank account. It leaves it with a global definition, a generation of experiments, and a sovereign state paying a recurring income. The distance between ...

From Cape Town to Seoul, basic income’s third decade became a story about people trying to make an old idea survive contact with real lives. Cash entered villages, researchers debated what it showed, ...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on governments to tax AI companies to fund a universal basic income and introduce employee retention incentives to account for the potential impact the technology ...

Families should be able to work, care for each other, and build toward a future without the constant threat of financial collapse. But the labor market—defined by low wages, volatile income, and ...

In a new publication Cash in Hand, Marc Doussard, Jurgen De Wispelaere and Joe Chrisp make the case for basic income as a policy solution that reinvigorates left-behind places. Featuring a foreword by ...

Taiwan President Lai’s proposal for a sovereign wealth fund is missing public ownership Taiwan’s President William Lai gave the sovereign wealth fund debate a useful standard in his second-anniversary ...

Between 1996 and 2006, a fringe academic network learned to reach activists, cross borders, and change the meaning of its own name. In September 1998, Karl Widerquist arrived at the BIEN Congress in ...

As the power of AI approaches AGI (Artificial General Intelligence – a hypothetical AI that matches or exceeds human cognitive abilities across all tasks), leaders of leading AI companies see a need ...