What happened when basic income was finally tested
August 15, 2026
BIEN 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
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How basic income became impossible to ignore
August 15, 2026
BIEN BIEN entered its fourth decade with a closed bank account. It leaves it with a global definition, a generation of experiments, and a sovereign
August 15, 2026
Inside Halton Sheila Regehr imagines a world where no one has to hold down a job they hate in order to make a living. It
Could Andy Burnham introduce a universal basic income?
August 6, 2026
Big Issue “That’s what this new era is going to be all about: a sense of hope, of possibility, that things are achievable that you
External review of Nutrition North calls for universal basic income
August 6, 2026
The long-awaited external review of the $144-million Nutrition North program, authored by former Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. president Aluki Kotierk, was published on June 26 and
What happened when basic income was finally tested
August 6, 2026
BIEN 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
The AI dividend: Could the Gulf turn AI wealth into guaranteed income?
July 31, 2026
Fast Company Anxiety over what AI will do to the labor force shows no sign of receding, amid the promise of more across nearly every
Basic Income and solving the polycrisis
July 31, 2026
Rabble The Basic Income Canada Network (BICN) is hosting the 2026 Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Congress at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) from August 19 to 22. This year’s
Anthropic CEO Floats Tax on AI firms to Fund Universal Income
July 31, 2026
BIEN Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on governments to tax AI companies to fund a universal basic income and introduce employee retention incentives to account