Author
Helmo Pape
2024
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Generation Basic Income: summer party and activism
No parliamentary party wants to speak up for an unconditional basic income, so we will.
2022
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With new momentum to the general meeting
Parliament has rejected the basic income citizens' initiative. Generation Grundeinkommen is responding with a new leadership circle and a clearer, more professional message.
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Popular initiative clears the hurdle to parliament
The second popular initiative "Implement UBI!", this time brought by all basic income initiatives together, was supported 168,981 times. Are we satisfied?
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News | Popular initiative signing week 2–9 May
The signing week has been set! Only from 2 to 9 May 2022 can our initiative be signed at all district offices throughout Austria.
2021
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News | There is something to celebrate!
As announced in the invitation email in mid-November, there is something to celebrate: the association Generation Grundeinkommen was founded on 19 January 2017.
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News | July 2021
On 3 July the closing rally of the basic income road show took place at Stephansplatz in Vienna. Plus: the Wiener Festwochen and a pilot project in Germany.
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News | May 2021 – the Austria road show and more
Our road show starts in Vienna on 25 May and ends back in Vienna on 3 July.
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News | April 2021
Our member Evelyn Heinzl is a doctoral student at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg and is interested in the links between corporate communication and the unconditional basic income.
2020
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Hooray, our brochure is ready …
After almost two years of work and many discussions, our comprehensive brochure on the unconditional basic income is ready. From page 75 it contains the feasibility study by the JKU Linz Society for Applied Economic Research (GAW).
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Einladung zur Generalversammlung German
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Guaranteed minimum income vs. basic income
Again and again, basic income and guaranteed minimum income get confused. A basic income is always meant to be unconditional; a guaranteed minimum income is always full of conditions, because it asks whether you are in need.
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Spain and its idea of a basic income
Spain's economy minister is thinking aloud about introducing a basic income. Austrian broadcaster ORF reported on it yesterday in ZIB Nacht and asked the economist and film-maker Christian Tod to explain the topic from his point of view.
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New basic income citizens' initiative
Application for a new citizens' initiative submitted to the Ministry of the Interior. As authorised representatives of the basic income movements in Austria, Klaus Sambor and Ingrid Farag successfully submitted the application entitled "Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen umsetzen!" (Implement an unconditional basic income!) in January 2020. It was approved on 6 February. Now it is time to take part.
2019
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Video messages from our 2nd birthday
Both videos from our 2nd birthday party in Linz are now online. Please share the videos on an eco-social tax reform through and with a UBI, and actively support the idea of a basic income!
