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BIEN NewsFlash 96, June 2016
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NewsFlash Volume 96, June 2016

NEWS

Europe: 64% of People in Favour of Basic Income, Poll Finds

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CANADA: Mayor and other elected officials support basic income at a Halifax conference

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UNITED STATES: Media’s Discussion of Basic Income Continues to Increase

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FRANCE: Will France be the next European country to start basic income tests?

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UNITED STATES: Fund Manager Bill Gross Endorses Basic Income

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ARGENTINA: Foundation Produces Three Books and Other Work on Basic Income

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FRANCE: Basic income in the heart of French citizens’ awakening

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SWITZERLAND: Grundeinkommen für dich to give away crowdsourced basic income

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Geneva: Swiss Basic Income Ground Sets World Record with the World’s Largest Poster

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Nobel Laureate Economist Angus Deaton endorses basic income
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GERMANY: Campaign for Basic Income Referendum Collects 90k Signatures
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UNITED KINGDOM: Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee on benefits of UBI
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BERLIN, GERMANY: Generation Basic Income Takes the World’s Largest Poster on Tour
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Setback for Basic Income movement in Namibia
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CANADA: Liberal Party passes resolution for Basic Income
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EVENTS

HUNGARY: Degrowth Conference Will Discuss Basic Income

Budapest - August 30th - September 3rd 2016 
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PORTUGAL: Meeting with civil associations focused on Basic Income

Lisbon - April 16th 2016
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SWITZERLAND: UN-Sponsored Panel Discussion on Basic Income

Geneva - 13th May 2016 
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BRUSSELS: “Basic income: Paradise or Purgatory?” 2 June 2016

Brussels - June 2nd 2016
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ARGENTINA: The future of employment and basic income: at the IDEA Annual Conference

Argentina - 22nd October 2015 
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TOKYO, Japan: Artificial General Intelligence and Basic Income, 3rd June 2016

Tokyo - June 3rd 2016
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FROM THE WEB

Philippe van Parijs, “Basic Income And Social Democracy”

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Olivia Barrow, “The Psychological Argument for a Universal Basic Income”

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John Harris, “Should we scrap benefits and pay everyone £100 a week?”

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Bryan Dean Wright, “Op-Ed Robots are coming for your job”

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Jon Evans, “We should be worried about job atomization, not job automation.”

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Joel Anderson, “Money For Nothing and Your Checks for Free”

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ACADEMIC LITERATURE

David Calnitsky, “‘More Normal than Welfare’: The Mincome Experiment, Stigma, and Community Experience”

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Dissertation on Basic Income as a Means to Promote Mental Health

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Karl Widerquist on Keynes and automation, “The Economic Possibilities of Our Grandparents”

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New Book on Basic Income in Australia and New Zealand

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OPINIONS & REVIEW

Jobs in ‘security’ are about to end

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Basic income will be at the core of monetary policy in the 21st century

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On why basic income has not yet been deployed: now it’s Namibia

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China’s minimum income guarantee you’ve never heard of

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AUDIO / VIDEO

CANADA: Oxford-style Debate on Basic Income (video)

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VIDEO: Webcast with Basic Income editors, hosted by Armando F. Sanchez

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VIDEO: 10 Caregiver Reasons for a Basic Income

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VIDEO: Physician Dr. Danielle Martin “Basic Income can save our health”

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VIDEO: Dr. James Mulvale, “Basic Income: An Idea Whose Time Has Come”

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UNITED STATES: Drawing to Give Away One-Year Basic Income

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