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
More Than 2,000 New York Artists Will Receive $1,000 a Month as Part of an Ambitious New Guaranteed Basic Income Program
By: Jo Lawson-Tancred A lucky group of artists in New York will get guaranteed income as part of an ambitious pilot program. The Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY) initiative has announced that it is spending $43.2 million to distribute monthly payments of $1,000 to 2,400 to artists and other creatives living across the state. Lasting for 18 months, these cash payments come with no strings attached. Around 20 percent of
Latest Articles
New Republican Bill in Texas Aims to Forbid UBI Pilots
By: Will DuPree AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin could become the last Texas city to enact a guaranteed income program if a
Can a universal basic income solve America’s baby bust?
By: Zaid Jilani Andrew Yang loves it. Elon Musk does, too. So do Alaskans. Now babies may become its biggest fans. It is
Amazon can’t get enough human workers — so here come the robots
By: Joann Muller Amazon is rolling out an army of robots that could soon select and sort the majority
San Francisco launches guaranteed basic income program for transgender community
See original post here. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., – San Francisco has launched a guaranteed income program for Trans people. The city’s Mayor,
Germany’s upper house blocks key UBI-like welfare reform
See original post here. The upper house of the German parliament on Wednesday put on hold government legislation to
Income Inequality
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
85% of the world’s population will live in the grip of stringent austerity measures by next year
See original article here. Despite millions of people being pushed into hunger and poverty, 143 countries — including 94
Can NYC become more equitable? Universal basic income, mobile health units among ideas in new report.
By: Chau Lam As New York City slowly emerges from the havoc wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic that brought
The OECD says South Africa should introduce a permanent basic income by raising taxes and eliminating tax breaks
By: Carol Paton See original article here. SA should make the R350 social grant permanent and raise taxes to
Pilots & Experiments
Opinion: Basic income is a noble idea, but St. Louis can afford only a small experiment
By: David Nicklaus It sounds like a no-brainer: The way to alleviate poverty is to give poor people more
Yolo County Board of Supervisors allocate more funds to basic income pilot project
By: Robyn Dobson The Yolo County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to allocate $550,000 of American Rescue Plan funds
Advocates in Nashville tout the results of guaranteed basic income
By: Diane Duenez There is evidence that guaranteed income programs tend to positively affect job prospects and long-term economic
St. Louis officials explore $5 million plan to guarantee income for poor residents
By: Austin Huguelet ST. LOUIS — Mayor Tishaura O. Jones’ administration is pushing a plan to pay for a
The Social Debate
Man facing homelessness considers assisted death as an alternative
By: Matthew P. Barker A local man struggling to survive on government assistance with deteriorating health is considering medical
LVT-UBI on the ballot in New Zealand
See original post here. New Zealand is suffering many of the same ills that afflict American cities. Tenants facing ever-rising
Key Republicans Say Negligible Decline in Economic Growth Outweighs Enormous Drop in Child Poverty
By: Joe Hughes The temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit in 2021 led to an enormous drop in poverty, according
Rishi Sunak urged to examine universal basic income to protect Britain from future crises
By: Ashley Cowburn, Political Correspondent Rishi Sunak is being urged to examine the radical idea of a universal basic income
Andrew Yang
Success Stories
Small study suggests money can buy happiness — for households with incomes below $123,000
By: Aria Bendix A recent experiment suggests that money can indeed buy happiness — at least for six months, among
One year into its pilot, Camp Harbor View’s guaranteed basic income program is working
By: Janelle Nanos In August 2021, Camp Harbor View launched an experiment: Giving $583 a month to 50 lower-income
Politics killed Ontario’s basic income pilot project, but it was working
By: Pam Frampton The metaphorical writing is on the wall and it’s hard to miss, and that’s because it’s
How to help young kids: Give their parents cash
By: JACKIE MADER AUSTIN, Texas — By his mid-20s, Tommy Andrade was tired of working dead-end jobs. With a
The Basics of UBI
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
Universal basic income and macro models: What can we learn?
By: Geoff Crocker The macroeconomics of universal basic income (UBI) is insufficiently addressed, both in proposing and in evaluating
In this age of chronic uncertainty, we need a basic income
By: Guy Standing We in the UK are living in an age of chronic uncertainty, in which crises pile
Workforce Automation
Nouriel Roubini on a ‘variant of another Great Depression’ and the inevitable UBI solution
By: WILL DANIEL Interviewing Nouriel Roubini as a young journalist can be intimidating, to say the least. The veteran
It’s past time to prepare for a future where the workforce has as many robots as people
By: The Editorial Board There’s a scene in the movie I, Robot where a robot-hating police officer, played by
The first political party in Denmark to have its platform determined by AI includes a large UBI
See original post here. Universal basic income that’s double the average wage? Legislating in favor of human-algorithmic coexistence? These
Baidu unveils new self-driving taxi in China
By: Zoe Kleinman. See original post here. It says its new model, the Apollo RT6, has the the road