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BIEN NewsFlash 98, August 2016
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NewsFlash Volume 98, August 2016

NEWS

HELSINKI, Finland: Kela Releases Preliminary Report on Finnish Basic Income Experiment

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INDIA: MP from largest political party endorses basic income

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BIN Italia: free online ebook QR3 [Notebooks on Basic Income]

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Hideaki Nakamura, “Question from Switzerland”

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NETHERLANDS: Former CNV head Doekle Terpstra recommends basic income in “new social contract”

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INTERNATIONAL: Live Reports from the BIEN congress

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US: White House roundtable discusses basic income

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BRAZIL: Former Senator and long-term BIG activist arrested for protesting the eviction of poor people

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US: Scott Santens to speak at Rock the Vote in Philadelphia, July 27

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‘Basic income’ inspired song excites NABIG
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US: President’s top economic adviser rejects basic income
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US: Grantcoin Foundation distributes first digital currency basic income grants
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CANADA: Waterloo Regional Council endorses basic income
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US: Former Presidential adviser Alan Krueger joins basic income research team
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UK’s Largest Trade Union Endorses Basic Income
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INDIA: Economist declares the UBI debate not over
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US libertarian presidential candidate ‘open’ to basic income
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US: Political Action Committee for Basic Income forms
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INTERNATIONAL: BIEN participates in CO-ACTE meetings
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NAMIBIA: Demands Begin for Basic Income, Not Food Banks
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US: Two AFL-CIO leaders reveal support for Basic Income
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EVENTS

CANADA: Basic Income Creation Marathon

Montreal - August 10-12th 2016 
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US: Basic income and care-centered economy workshop

Buffalo, NY - July 10th 2016
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DENMARK: Nordic Conference on Basic Income Pilots

Copenhagen - September 22-23th 2016 
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UK: “The Future of Creative Employment in a Post-Work World” Workshop

London - July 15th 2016
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PORTUGAL: Conversation on Ethics of Basic Income

Vila Real - July 16th 2016 
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IRELAND: Reflections on Basic Income Ireland Summer Forum

Dublin - June 11th 2016
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GERMANY: Moving Towards Degrowth
Berlin - July 26th 2016
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FROM THE WEB

Johan Nygren, “Crypto-states make taxation impossible  –  Darwinian Basic Income is the Future”

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Charles Alan Murray, “A Guaranteed Income for Every American”

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Robert Skidelsky, “A basic income could be the best way to tackle inequality”

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Martin Whitlock, “The Basic Income Will Make Sense When People Learn to Value Their Unpaid Work”

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Jane Costello, “Many countries are weighing cash payments to citizens. Could it work in the U.S.?”

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Ursula Huws, “The way we work is changing, but the welfare state hasn’t kept pace”

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ACADEMIC LITERATURE

S. Gobetti, L. Santini: The Crisis of Labour, Widespread Precarity and Basic Income

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BOOK: Dick Pels, A Heart for Europe

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“The Concept of Basic Income: Global Experience and Implementation Possibilities in Lithuania”

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BOOK: Vijay Joshi, India’s Long Road to Prosperity

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OPINIONS & REVIEW

ITALY: Basic income and the future of work

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Interview: UK’s social security needs a ‘fundamental rethink’

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Response: The Economist’s “Basically Flawed” Anti-UBI Argument

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Universal basic income: poor tool to fight poverty? Mapping the debate

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If Citizen’s Income is the Answer, What is the Question?

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Selling the Basic Income

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Donald Trump and the Prospects for a Basic Income

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Response: Could a Basic Income Help Poor Countries?

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Response: Money for nothing

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Basic Income Interviews: Nina Šoštarič

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AUDIO / VIDEO

AUDIO: “What If Government Just Gave Poor People Cash? It’s Been Tried In Denver”

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VIDEO: Jobless Future: Fact or Fiction?

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