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Grundeinkommen
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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27 basic incomes of 1,000 euros a month for 1 year
What happens if 1,000 euros suddenly arrive in your account every month without you having to do anything for it? Mein Grundeinkommen is raffling 27 basic incomes.
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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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Draw of 25 basic incomes for 12 months
25 people each receive 12,000 euros as a gift – just like that. Draw show on 24 June 2021 at 7 p.m. with Gloria Viagra and Mein Grundeinkommen.
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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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Would there still be homeless people with a basic income?
When someone loses their home because they can no longer pay the rent, a vicious circle begins: no registered address, no employment contract; no work, no money for a flat. Could a basic income break this circle?
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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.
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Does a basic income make people more tolerant and engaged?
Our society is becoming increasingly divided. Yet one thing is clear: social cohesion will be more important than ever in the future, as digitalisation, global pandemics and climate change confront us with unprecedented challenges.
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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20 basic incomes of 12,000 euros each to be raffled again
In six years, a non-profit NGO has given away 648 basic incomes – and it carries on. On 12 August, another 20 basic incomes of 12,000 euros each will be raffled, financed by 130,000 donors. Anyone can win.
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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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20 people test a basic income for one year
Twenty people who can test for a year what it is like to live with a basic income. Financed by donations, given away by a non-profit NGO: on 22 July, 20 basic incomes of 12,000 euros each will be raffled. Anyone can take part.
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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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Replacing existential fear with security
Press release from the initiative Mein Grundeinkommen (My Basic Income): the association is giving away 30 basic incomes of 1,000 euros a month for six months. "It is time for a basic income that replaces existential fear with security" is the motto. They will be raffled in Berlin on 1 April, with a livestream.
2019
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42 basic incomes to give away in Berlin
A Berlin association is giving away more than half a million euros in basic income. Mein Grundeinkommen is holding the "biggest basic income raffle of all time" and awarding 42 unconditional basic incomes.
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Brilliant: Italy introduces a basic income
Since the last elections, the wind in Italy has changed quite radically. It seems that the Italians have managed to usher in a peaceful change of system by democratic political means.
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Generation Grundeinkommen celebrates
Generation Grundeinkommen was launched on 19 January 2017 with the mission of bringing the unconditional basic income (UBI) into a nationwide debate. 2018 was all about "Why a basic income". 2019 will revolve around the "How". It all kicks off on 19 January in Linz.
2018
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Over a million people want an unconditional basic income
The idea of a basic income is winning more and more supporters, including outside party politics. More than a million people already support the young NGO Mein Grundeinkommen and want to try out an unconditional basic income.
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Basic income experiment in Rheinau
A basic income field trial is due to start in Rheinau, Switzerland, in 2019. It was launched by the filmmaker Rebecca Panian, 39, who chose the municipality in the canton of Zurich from a large number of applicants. For one year, every one of the 1,300 residents will be able to take part in the experiment – with exceptions.
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Italy's “Decree of Dignity”
On 7 August the Italian Senate voted for a “Decree of Dignity” that includes a citizens' income from 2019. Is it a basic income?
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