Original article here. By: Greg Childress A bill barring North Carolina cities and counties from adopting or enforcing guaranteed income programs won approval in the state
By: JULIA FELTON Original post can be found here. Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey is scrapping plans to use American Rescue Plan funding for a guaranteed
“These trees which he plants, and under whose shade he shall never sit, he loves them for themselves, and for the sake of his children
By Jacob Pramuk Twenty-one Senate Democrats led by Ron Wyden are pushing President Joe Biden to include recurring direct payments and an extension of jobless benefits
Universal basic income gains momentum in America COLETTE SMITH and her husband are both out of work. They had exhausted their savings, when she received
Explained: How does Germany’s Kinderbonus coronavirus payment work? by The Local The German government plans to spend €130 billion to revive the economy, and
By Scott Santens. Hearing protestors chant in unison, “I can’t breathe,” is something that hits viscerally. It’s a call for the importance of our
What Would It Look Like if the Economy Loved Black Entrepreneurs? by OSCAR PERRY ABELLO Business is picking up again for Piikup, the local delivery
A note by Scott Santens: Despite headlines you may have read to the contrary, Spain did not just implement basic income. It is implementing a
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean proposes Universal Basic Income By Pablo Yanes The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean,
Bishop: Basic income about ‘what’s right to do for people’ Matthew Townsend On May 3, the Anglican Church of Canada published a letter sent to Prime
The number of Americans who have filed first-time claims for unemployment benefits has blown past previous records – more than 24 million have filed since mid-March, when
Intro by Scott Santens: In a prime example of how bureaucracy functions as a roadblock to lifesaving income assistance, only 3.3% of those who have
by Stacey Rutland Income Movement Scarcity mindsets and models drive most modern economic theory: collectively, we believe that wealth and resources are finite, that someone
America’s Social Safety Net Wasn’t Ready For The Coronavirus Crisis Stories from the new economic reality By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux Graphics by Ryan Best Filed under Coronavirus Published Apr. 8,
Introduction from Scott Santens: On Easter Sunday, Pope Francis proposed what he called a “universal basic wage.” Being that he didn’t use the words, “universal
In his Easter address to popular movements of the world, Pope Francis encouraged activists to keep up their efforts and their hope under the pressure of
Jack Dorsey, the CEO of both Twitter and digital payments platform Square, said on Tuesday that he will donate $1 billion worth of equity in
The Spanish government is working to roll out a universal basic income as soon as possible, as part of a battery of actions aimed at
That whrrrrr sound you hear is the Federal Reserve’s money printer firing up. The emergency public-health measures necessary to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus have
