I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Basic Income since 2013. Here's a list of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments, unconditional cash transfer studies, and cash dividend research.

The data speaks for itself.

Data: reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/… #basicincome

This article about persons with disabilities experience with the Ghana district assemblies common fund was the project of one of our great fellows, Alimata Karimu journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… Alberto Vásquez

My husband Alex Freedom One Life arrived Frankfurt Airport to find his powerchair like this. Thankfully he deliberately designed the chair to be robust for air travel & the chair is fine but no one should be greeted by this scene. #rightsOnFlights #DisabilityTwitter

UK, France, Italy and Germany study shows clear link between poverty and severe disability cross-nationally, but highest in the UK link.springer.com/article/10.100… Tom Shakespeare

China study shows nearly half of the disability wage gap is from discrimination, & the rest from productivity differentials --but I'd add that those productivity differentials may be the result of past discrimination in education or just socially onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Please join an online event with International Disability Alliance (IDA) Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities CBM Global Disability Inclusion on #data & persons with #disabilities , including citizen-generated data on 7 Feb, 8-9am EST. International Sign interpretation & live captions in English provided. Please register here:
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In Belize, overseeing the testing of the UNICEF Child Functioning Module - Teacher Version, funded by IADB. The Ministry of Education is working to improve their data on children with disabilities and also data on the school environment.

A new OHCHR report, 'Good practices of support systems enabling community inclusion of persons with disabilities ' is out. Prepared with assistance of CIP @centerforinclu1 documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/…

Join an online event from International Disability Alliance (IDA) Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities CBM Global Disability Inclusion with Sara Rocha over #data findings & persons with #disabilities on 7 February, 8-9am EST. International Sign interpretation & live captions in English will be provided. Please register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Report from Paraguay on use of Washington Group questions in a hospital setting to identify disability ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Check out the latest blog on the Washington Group website. This one from guest-blogger Robert Buluma from Kenya on their housing survey washingtongroup-disability.com/wg-blog/empowe…

In yet another historic move, Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez today launched CongressTV, a dedicated free-to-air channel that will broadcast the sessions and regular legislative work of the House of Representatives. (1/6)

Check out our video on disability costs.

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You can also see a whole range of videos on disability data and social protection policy at our website's resource page at inclusive-policy.org

Such valuable research

The US Census Bureau's proposal to change their questions on disability are controversial. NPR interviewed me, but didn't capture the main points I was trying to make. Here are my thoughts on the proposed changes versus the current questions. inclusive-policy.org/data/the-unite…

Study from Qatar shows the large and varied expenses required to ensure children with disabilities get the goods and services they require qscience.com/content/journa…

The last barely functioning hospital in northern Gaza is a humanitarian disaster zone, says World Health Organization (WHO).

Doctors are being forced to treat critically ill people on the floor, while grappling with a scarcity of fuel, oxygen, food and water. news.un.org/en/story/2023/…

great news for CIP and to those who work with us!

Study shows intersectional effects of gender and disability on education in the Philippines Abner Manlapaz Nidhi Singal CaNDER mdpi.com/2673-8104/3/4/…

Education data for inclusion in Rwanda -- a project I was involved in recently.
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