How does basic income respond to the issues facing young people? The Issues: Young people find themselves under tremendous pressure from an early age to make life choices. Unless their families are well-off financially, they can be discouraged from exploring Read more…
How does basic income support caring? The issues: We all need care from others, particularly when we are young, ill or infirm We are all potential carers – as parents, children, spouses, and other relatives; as partners, friends, neighbours, and Read more…
How does basic income support farmers? The issues: Farming, as a business, takes many forms, including family farms, privately owned small-scale growing, membership-based Community Supported Farms (generally known as CSAs), worker-owned cooperatives, and large-scale farms owned by consortiums. Yet the Read more…
How does basic income support artistic and creative work? The issues: Artistic and creative work adds economic value to society, but it is often valued only for its potential contribution to economic growth. Artistic and creative work is also intrinsically 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 Read more…
Basic Income Ireland member Roisin Mulligan has been awarded the 2012 Basic Income Studies Essay prize for her paper “Universal Basic Income and Recognition Theory – A Tangible Step towards an Ideal.” This prize is given for the best paper 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 Read more…
About thirty people attended the Basic Income Ireland website launch and participatory event at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, on March 7th, 2013. We briefly introduced the concept of basic income, how it can be paid for and what Read more…
We are pleased to announce the first public meeting for Basic Income Ireland, which will take place at NUI Maynooth on the evening of Thursday, 7 March. All are invited to attend this event. For full details click on the Read more…