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Basic Income News
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News about Basic Income provided by BIEN and its affiliates
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Blog-article: A message of Hope for the Greek People: the case for a basic income
http://www.tetedequenelle.fr/2012/02/greece-basic-income
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Article: Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities: For the Welfare of All
http://www.hannaharendtcenter.org/?p=4325
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Blog-article: Basic Income Guarantee
http://www.kenvanharen.com/2012/01/basic-income-guarantee.html
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Munich, Germany: 14th Congress of the Basic Income Earth Network: Pathways to a Basic Income
The debate about an unconditional basic income has attracted public attention in a number of countries in recent years. Financial, debt, and ecological crises are causing growing numbers of people to look for political alternatives to the existing economy and the way income is distributed within it. With the debate entering this crucial phase, the 2012 BIEN Congress will discuss possible pathways and barriers towards establishing and implementing Basic Income. This year, the Network Basic Income Germany (Netzwerk Grundeinkommen Deutschland) is organizing the conference.
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France: A parliamentary mission about basic income mandated by Nicolas Sarkozy?
French politician Christine Boutin withdraw her candidacy for the next presidential election, and announced on the French television TF1 that she reached an agreement with the unofficial candidate Nicolas Sarkozy. The president of the Christian-Democrat Party explained that recent speeches of the president Nicolas Sarkozy proved he defends the same values as her such as [...]
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Hodgson, Glen “Guaranteed annual income – a Big Idea whose time has yet to arrive”
Hodgson, Glen “Guaranteed annual income – a Big Idea whose time has yet to arrive” (iPolitics, December 20, 2011) This article by Glen Hodgson, Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist of the Conference Board of Canada since 2004, discusses the economic, fiscal and social value of a guaranteed annual income (GAI) for Canada and demands further [...]
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Review: Peter Dwyer, Understanding Social Citizenship
The number of degree course modules on 'citizenship' is increasing, and this book is designed as a core text; but it will be useful not just to teachers and students, but also to social policy practitioners and politicians because the contested and complex concept of citizenship now informs debate on all manner of social policy issues, as this book amply shows.
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Review: Stuart Lowe, The Housing Debate
Stuart Lowe's The Housing Debate takes a refreshingly broad view of housing and welfare. Rather than a balanced introduction for students to current debates around housing and social policy, Lowe has a clear case to make. 'There is mounting evidence that housing is not only an important pillar of welfare states, but, looked at in its broadest sense, has become a foundation.'
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Review: Daniel Dorling, Fair Play: A Daniel Dorling reader on social justice
In this book Daniel Dorling has brought together fifty-two of his academic papers, newspaper articles, magazine articles, and unpublished essays, to create a nicely structured and really quite devastating critique of our unequal society: devastating because so carefully researched.
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Interview: Social insurance is not for the Indian open economy of the 21st century
This interview with Guy Standing first appeared in The Times of India, Crest edition, 9th July 2011, and we are grateful for permission to reprint it. The interview was conducted by Rukmini Shrinivasan
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