Basic Income Ireland, a national body for the promotion of a Universal and Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) in Ireland, issues the following comment on the proposal for a Basic Income Guarantee contained in the recent Pathways to Work 2021-2025 document released by Government. The proposal in the Pathways to Work Read more…
When Basic Income Ireland members do a presentation on basic income, we always get asked about costings. So that’s why we have spent some time working on them, and you can see an example in our leaflet. William Clegg, a members and supporter who lives in Canada, thinks it is Read more…
An earlier version of this article was published in April 2013 by Feasta: The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability. www.feasta.org Anne B Ryan Introduction The system for social security as it has developed in Ireland and many other European countries is not working. It was designed for a different era, Read more…