ALASKA: Dividend Could Reach $2000 This Year as it Remains Under Threat
Experts predict the Alaska Permanent Fund will distribute $2,000 to every citizen this year.
Karl Widerquist
ALASKA: Attack on Alaska’s Basic Income averted for now but fiscal pressure on its future increases
Alaska’s government might have to tap the Alaska Permanent Fund in order to to cover its public deficit.
CHINA: Macau residents to receive annual basic income
For the fifth time in a row, residents of Macau City will receive a yearly dividend worth more than a thousand US dollars.
Alaska’s Budget Deficit is Political Threat to its Basic Income
Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend is the closest thing to a Basic Income that exists in the world today. It gives every U.S. Citizen who fills out a form verifying Alaska residency a check for a share of the revenue from […]
Brooklyn, NY: Report from the meeting to create a political movement for basic income
Thirty-one people signed the attendance sheet at the first meeting of group of people attempting to start a political movement for basic income in the United States. Several more people attended without signing, and others followed and contributed to the […]
Drop in Oil Prices Causes Concern for the Future of Alaska’s Small Basic Income
The recent drop in oil prices has had a devastating effect on the Alaska state government’s budget, most of which is derived directly or indirectly from current oil revenues.
UNITED STATES: Alanna Hartzok, running on a platform including support for Basic Income, receives 37 percent of the vote in Congressional Race
Alanna Hartzok, a long-time support of Basic Income, received 37% of the vote in the Congressional election for 9th Congressional District in Pennsylvania. She received the Democratic Party nomination for Congress earlier this year, and finished second in voting to […]
Basic Income News Expands with the UBI Movement
Unconditional Basic Income is a movement. Five or ten years ago the idea was little discussed outside of a few limited—mostly academic—circles. Now activists are campaigning for it all over the world. The mainstream media is writing about it. It […]
BRAZIL: Eduardo Suplicy, long-term advocate of Unconditional Basic Income, defeated in his bid for reelection to the Brazilian Senate
Eduardo Suplicy, long-term advocate of Unconditional Basic Income, was defeated in his bid for reelection to the Brazilian Senate. Suplicy is a former co-chair of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) and an honorary co-President of BIEN. Of any high-level […]
UNITED STATES: Alaska’s small basic income likely to double this year.
The Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD), Alaska’s small yearly Basic Income, is likely to double this year over last year’s value. The dividend is paid every fall from the returns to the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF), a pool of financial assets […]