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  • faviconGuaranteed income helps people leaving jail and prison, and that helps everyone — Guaranteed income is an efficient way to help people succeed in reentry, reducing recidivism and quickly paying for itself [2026]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: UBI   
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    Country: US   
    Source: Various    

  • faviconIreland’s basic income for artists changed my life. Other people deserve the same luck — The state’s own research found that for every euro the government spent on supporting artists, society received €1.39 in return, and the scheme was estimated to have generated more than €100m in social and economic benefits [2026]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: UBI   
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    Country: IE   
    Source: The Guardian    

  • faviconIreland announces new scheme providing basic income for artists — The research revealed that participants in the pilot project showed greater professional autonomy and capacity for creative work, as well as less anxiety and  higher life satisfaction [2026]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: UBI   
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    Country: IE   
    Source: Various    

  • faviconGen X may be the first to need a universal basic income after late-career job loss — A larger proportion of Gen X are susceptible to hard falls than their predecessors. This demands a structural solution and a universal basic income might be the answer [2025]
    In: Predatory capitalism    
    Topics: UBI   
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    Country: US   
    Source: Various    

  • faviconThe most valuable work we give a value of zero — Economists and other writers like Marilyn Waring have written about how care is the most valuable work in any economy but is given a value of zero. The work of basic income is care as well [2025]
    In: Predatory capitalism    
    Topics: How to be Human, UBI   
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    Source: Independent Blogs    

  • faviconBillionaire backlash shows the power of basic income — Simply put, poverty and wealth are both about power – historical and contemporary – and how this plays out in people’s everyday lives. The idea behind basic income is to rebalance that power, redistributing it from those who have plenty to ensure that all have enough [2024]
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: UBI   
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    Country: US   
    Source: Al Jazeera    

  • faviconBasic income: why we need to start talking about money. Many aren’t getting their basic needs met in the UK. UBI could change this – if we can believe we deserve it [2024]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: UBI   
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    Country: UK   
    Source: openDemocracy    

  • faviconWhy You Hate Your Job: it’s a bullshit job — The creation of UBI would liberate many from degrading working conditions and meaningless work, while allowing them to take on dignified work that truly serves the society. Whether this dignity is derived from external or internal sources, it is a prerequisite to our pursuit of the good life [2022]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: How to be Human, UBI   
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    Source: Current Affairs    

  • faviconModern welfare in the United Kingdom is a universal (dis)credit to Beveridge. Adequate social security is vital to the functioning of society, as well as to the health and well-being of the population and Universal Basic Income can help by offering stable, individual, non-means tested, and unconditional money transfers, to all citizens [2024]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Research, UBI   
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    Country: UK   
    Source: Scientific Journals    

  • faviconLos Angeles gave families $1,000 a month in the biggest basic income pilot in the country, reporting positive results for the recipients. Participants reported fewer housing burdens, better food security, safer home situations, and were more likely to secure full-time work than remain unemployed [2024]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: UBI   
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    Country: US   
    Source: Business Insider    

  • faviconUBI, at its heart and in its philosophy, upholds the idea of social justice by acknowledging that everyone deserves a decent quality of living, regardless of socioeconomic status. By ensuring that every person receives an unconditional basic income, UBI supports people’s inherent worth and equality and ensures that no one is left behind in the quest for a fulfilling life [2024]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: UBI   
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    Source: Independent Blogs    

  • faviconThe concept of a guaranteed basic income might seem novel or neoteric, but it dates back to 1795, when Thomas Paine suggested a “national fund” should pay every adult a “ground rent” of £10 a year until the age of 50. Earth is “the common property of the human race”, he argued, so everyone has been collectively dispossessed by “the introduction of the system of landed property” and was entitled to compensation
    In: Good life    
    Topics: UBI   
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    Source: The Guardian    

  • faviconReversing the wealth transfers trend from young to old through Universal Basic Income offers a promising solution by redistributing wealth more equitability, stimulating economic growth, and promoting social cohesion [2024]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: UBI   
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    Source: Independent Blogs