Scott Santens
Editor of Basic Income Today
Basic Income Today was created to provide news and information and to further the discussion and debate about Universal Basic Income.
EDITOR’S PICKS
Quebec makes disability program more like basic income
See original post here. MONTREAL — For the first time in many years, Monique Toutant thinks she might be able to buy herself some better groceries and a few new clothes. As a longtime social assistance recipient, the 62-year-old Quebec City resident is used to pinching pennies, buying the strict minimum at the grocery store and saving for months for every purchase. She calls it “everyday stress.” “Will I have
Latest Articles
People aren’t feeling engaged with their work
By: Andrea Hsu When Tanvi Sinha first got into accounting 17 years ago, she worked from the office every
Evanston, NU collaborate on guaranteed basic income pilot
By: William Tong In December, Evanston began giving $500 each month to 150 residents as part of the city’s
This isn’t trivial’: Applying for welfare benefits is too difficult, low-income Americans say
By: Claire Thornton Low-income Americans are struggling to obtain help from state governments when they most need it, facing long
Opinion: I’m a copywriter. I’m pretty sure artificial intelligence is going to take my job
By: Henry Williams “Write an article on ‘What is payment gateway?’” I recently typed into a ChatGPT window. ChatGPT,
No-strings-attached basic income goes to hundreds of Denver residents
By: LINDSEY TOOMER For a few hundred members of Denver’s unhoused population, the Denver Basic Income Project has provided
Income Inequality
Taiwan Makes History with Universal Cash Payment Plan
By: Tyler Prochazka Taiwan is making history by sending out a one-time universal cash payment of $6,000 New Taiwan
Two-thirds of the new wealth amassed since the start of the pandemic has gone to the richest 1%
By: Larry Elliott Oxfam has called for immediate action to tackle a post-Covid widening in global inequality after revealing
RSA: Young People Need Basic Income
By: ELLIOTT JOHNSON and MATTHEW JOHNSON Many older generations in the UK have experienced an economic sweet spot in
The crisis of waged work reinforces the need for a universal basic income
By: Hein Marais According to economic geographer David Harvey ‘labour is becoming less and less significant to how the
Pilots & Experiments
Some guaranteed basic income programs are ending, even as they gain popularity nationwide
By: Josiah Bates In the wake of the economic crisis driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, cities explored universal basic
Guaranteed Basic Income Programs Are Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy
By: Natalie Foster In his 1967 book Where Do We Go From Here? Martin Luther King Jr. issued a visionary call
Hudson’s UBI pilot shows increased part-time and full-time employment
See original post here. As the HudsonUP Basic Income Pilot completes year two of its five-year guaranteed income program, JFI today
New study will look at the differences a universal basic income may make in the health of Black men
By: Stacy Ryburn FAYETTEVILLE — A research team in Central Arkansas will spend the next five years studying the
The Social Debate
Opinion: We cannot prioritize both the environment and economic growth
By: Shelton Bowman Jobs! Growth! The economy! Despite a divided political landscape, it is a relief to know that
How We Can Make Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream of Ending Poverty A Reality
By: MICHAEL TUBBS I grew up in the shadows of a Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard in Stockton, Calif.
New minimum income guarantee will help American military families
By: Karen Jowers A new allowance, designed to be a safety net for lower-income active duty military families, is
Only one-in-five hungry Canadians use food banks — what’s broken?
By: Stefan Labbé They were meant to be temporary, a quick fix for people who had fallen on hard
Andrew Yang
Success Stories
How Tacoma’s yearlong guaranteed income experiment fared
By: Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks When the pandemic hit in 2020, Debbie Wilkerson decided to retire early from her job at
Basic income program focused on formerly incarcerated exceeds expectations
By: Makaelah Walters For more than a year, Murray Wilson has bathed, fed, and clothed his 75-year-old mother, whose
Chelsea basic income program so successful, it’s coming back, officials say
By: Ryan Mancini Over a year after the city of Chelsea gave 2,000 families $400 a month between 2020
Basic income program participant: ‘People want to work but things stop them from being able to’
See original article here. Editor’s note: In the piece below, guaranteed income recipient Ashala mentions the federal government’s Temporary Assistance for
The Basics of UBI
Opinion: Basic income wouldn’t lead to adults leaving their jobs and could lift millions of children into brighter futures
By: Michael W. Howard When the child tax credit, first established in 1997, was expanded for a year in
UBI – A highly relevant macroeconomic policy tool that most policymakers misunderstand
By: Swapnil Pawar Universal basic income has been discussed at length in recent debates in economics. The mistaken and
How universal basic income entered the political mainstream
By: Colin Drury It’s near the end of the month, and all 2.1 million adults living here have just
How a guaranteed $600 per month is changing the lives of the formerly incarcerated
By: Sarah Krueger Tydricka Lewis is appreciative of the $600 she’s given each month as part of Durham’s guaranteed
Workforce Automation
ChatGPT passes MBA exam given by a Wharton professor
By: Kalhan Rosenblatt New research conducted by a professor at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School found that the artificial intelligence-driven chatbot
Why ChatGPT will only become stronger with GPT-4
By: LESLIE D’MONTE Hardly a day goes by without a mention of ChatGPT, the wunderkind artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot
Would it really be so bad if AI took our jobs?
By: Serena Smith In a world where AI is rapidly advancing, the question of whether it would be a
Robots Are Replacing Workers Lost in the Pandemic. They’re Here to Stay.
By: Daren Fonda Midway through a mission to deliver food at George Mason University in Virginia, the little white