After more than three years of powering Basic Income Conversation, Compass is no longer the host organisation. The Conversation is entering a new era, with the project finding a new…
16 Jun, 2023
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13 Feb, 2023
Geoff Crocker’s book review of Martin Wolf’s ‘The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism’
This book review was originally posted of ubi.org here. Martin Wolf is right. Capitalism is delivering rampant inequality, leading democracy to generate populist demagogues appealing to economically excluded voters. Wolf’s…
27 May, 2022
A modest basic income could cut poverty to lowest level in 60 years
Read the report A new universal basic income model could cut poverty by more than half, reducing it to its lowest level for 60 years. This fiscally neutral scheme involves…
25 Apr, 2022
Basic Income Month — Our crowdfunded basic income pilot
In 2021 we crowdfunded a basic income pilot. Working with the London Solidarity Funds we ran the Basic Income Month, funding £50 payments to 71 people.
24 Mar, 2022
Sunak won’t tackle the cost of living crisis. A basic income can.
Yesterday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced this government’s spring budget. With living standards set for the largest single-year fall since records began in the mid 1950s, the government will oversee a 5% fall…
07 Apr, 2022
Book Review “Keystroke Capitalism: How Banks Create Money for the Few” by Aaron Sahr
Aaron Sahr offers a rich discourse on the huge growth of financial markets in modern economies and the implication for inequality. We face a ‘trinity of growing private wealth, mounting…
16 Feb, 2022
Details of the Welsh basic income pilot announced
In this blog Co-Founder of the Basic Income Conversation Cleo Goodman looks at the details of the Welsh basic income pilot released today. Today details of the Welsh basic income pilot have…
17 Aug, 2020
Universal Basic Income & Universal Basic Services: How can we bring them together?
Universal Basic Income (UBI) is not a new idea but has recently gained some credence, with interest in possible pilot studies shown by the Scottish national government and one UK…
05 Jun, 2020
Crisis conversations – Reset #4: time, work and sharing economic benefits
A decade of economic hardship seemed to have transformed for increasingly urban workforces the promise of shorter working weeks and better work-life balances into bleaker futures, of stressed commuting, working…
28 Apr, 2020
Paving the way for a Basic Income
A new report by Basic Income expert Stewart Lansley highlights the importance of a recovery basic income as the Covid-19 pandemic crisis exposes the inadequacy of today's social security system.…
18 Mar, 2020
Why we need an Emergency Basic Income
Two weeks ago myself and my Co-Founder Michael Pugh launched the Basic Income Conversation as a new arm of Compass. We’re working to further the case for a basic income…
18 Mar, 2019
Basic Income for All: the closest thing to a silver bullet
There is no single silver bullet policy to create a Good Society – but basic income is the closest there is. It opens up some big questions: what is a good…