By: Malea Martin. See original post here. Mountain View’s guaranteed basic income pilot program will live to see another year, thanks in part to a $100,000
By: Jennifer A. Kingson See original post here. We’re encountering lots more robots in our daily lives — delivering our food, pouring our drinks, mowing
By: Ben Steverman. See original post here. So far, 2022 is on quite a roll: war, inflation, market selloffs, recession worries, virus lockdowns in China,
By: SHIRA LI BARTOV . See original post here. A Chicago alderwoman was floored to receive a letter informing her that she rose to the top of
By: Rhonda Castello – as told to Justin Chandler. See original post here. I’ve been living in Hamilton for about 25 years. I’m a Hamiltonian.
By: Elvia Malagón See original post here. Cook County residents soon will be able to apply for a program offering $500 a month, no strings
My New Red Shoes (MNRS) is proud to announce Project Empower, a new basic income pilot that will provide direct cash assistance to immigrant survivors of
By: Eli Dvorkin and Mo Russell Leed Original Post: https://nycfuture.org/research/basic-income-for-transition-age-foster-youth The past four years, more than 20 cities and states across the country have launched
By covering part of the cost of daycare, Child Tax Credit checks have allowed many mothers to continue pursuing a career despite the Great Resignation.
Momentum has grown for UBI-style programs By Sarah Holder Original article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-28/the-u-s-cities-giving-residents-direct-cash-payments At least 20 guaranteed income pilots have launched in cities and counties across the
By Jesse Bedayn Original article: https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2448685525609/500-a-month-without-strings-bay-area-s-latest-guaranteed-income-program?_f=app_share&s=a99&share_destination_id=MTUzNTUzMjU4LTE2MzgzMDcyOTEyNzU=&pd=0AOIDSZ0&hl=en_US South San Francisco this month sent out the first $500 monthly checks to around 150 low-income families to spend however
By Joseph Zeballos-Roig A new study challenges Manchin’s assertion that the revamped child tax credit keeps people from working. The analysis found “statistically insignificant impacts”
Roderick Benns recently posed a few questions to Craig Berggold, creator of the recent basic income video that was an instant success. Benns: What was the inspiration for this
In an attempt to put low-income workers on more solid financial footing, New Mexico lawmakers in recent years have approved a minimum wage increase and
By Catherine Clifford Artificial intelligence will create so much wealth that every adult in the United States could be paid $13,500 per year from its windfall
One city in California deployed a courageous UBI experiment. That bet paid off. Here is the interview from PBS Millions of Americans faced economic, housing
Should Environmentalists Embrace Universal Basic Income? Cash payments from the government could help ease the transition to a climate-safe economy and weather the natural and
A four-day week and universal basic income: the post-coronavirus world Wales’s future tsar wants to see UK-wide Sophie Howe said we have an opportunity now
You can now listen to Crisis 2038 for free on SoundCloud! Fall 2038. A crisis is brewing as increasingly intelligent AIs and robots replace more
After hundreds of years, basic income seems to be finally catching on. The general idea — that the government should give every citizen a regular infusion of
Forty years ago today—February 7, 1980—was a small milestone for the Universal Basic Income (UBI) movement: Milton and Rose Friedman dedicated an episode of their television show to a
“In my experience, there is no clearer understanding of the concept of unconditional basic income than among those who have lived with it as part
For about a decade now, the charity GiveDirectly has been distributing cash straight to poor residents in sub-Saharan Africa, starting in Kenya and expanding later to Uganda,
