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A Ballot Initiative in Oregon is Making Progress Towards Establishing a Statewide UBI
See original post here. The Oregon Rebate (IP 2024-017) ballot initiative campaign has announced early success in collecting the
Unified Basic Income: A Viable Solution for Israel and Palestine?
By: Ahmed Elbas See original post here. While the proposition may appear daunting, the exploration of Universal Basic Income
Study reveals how cash grants can generate more income
By: Leila Patel See original post here. South Africa has one of the world’s most expansive social grant systems:
A global ‘conservation basic income’ might cost trillions but save trillions more
By: Emiel de Lange, Visiting researcher, The University of Edinburgh | Jocelyne Sze, PhD Candidate in Conservation and Biodiversity,
Work requirements are a policy failure: Why are they still an option?
By: KATHERINE HEMPSTEAD See original post here. We’ve reached an inflection point in our economic recovery from the COVID-19
New bill would stop SNAP recipients from buying junk food with benefits
By: JANAE BOWENS and KONNER MCINTIRE See original post here. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides nutrition benefits to more than 42
Why use of AI is a major sticking point in the ongoing writers’ strike
By: Jeremy Hsu See original post here. Could AI soon write your favourite Hollywood film or streaming show? That concern
BT to replace 10,000 workers with AI as part of wider cull of up to 55,000 staff in bid to slash costs
By: Kit Heren See original post here. The cost-cutting came as the company reported a 12% drop in annual
NYC Guaranteed Income Program Goes From Pilot to Permanent
By: Sarah Holder See original post here. A monthly cash payment program for new mothers in New York is
Food banks are taking over from the welfare state, warns Gordon Brown
Food banks are increasingly “taking over from the welfare state”, former Labour PM Gordon Brown has warned, amid growing
Guaranteed basic income program helps single mother make ends meet
By: JANET SHAMLIAN See original post here. Adriana Flores, a single mother of two boys, watches every dollar, and
More Americans say financial woes are hurting their mental health
By: KHRISTOPHER J. BROOKS See original post here. Rising interest rates, inflation and unstable income are damaging the mental
DeepMind Founder Says Universal Basic Income Needed for AI Job Losses
By: Pete Syme See original post here. A co-founder of DeepMind, the AI company bought by Google in 2014,
AI could replace 80% of jobs ‘in next few years’: expert
By: Eugenia LOGIURATTO See original post here. Artificial intelligence could replace 80 percent of human jobs in the coming
Liberal convention in Canada votes in favor of guaranteed basic income
ByCosmin Dzsurdzsa See original post here. The Liberal Party of Canada held its policy convention over the weekend where
Basic Income and AI-Induced Unemployment
By: Connor Axiotes (Adam Smith Institute) | Nikhil Woodruff (UBI Centre & Policy Engine) | Scott Santens (Humanity Forward)
Basic Income Program for High School Students Named Finalist in Fast Company’s 2023 World Changing Idea Awards
NEW ORLEANS , May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The 50 Dollar Study was named a Finalist in the Social Justice Category of Fast Company ‘s 2023
IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI
International Business Machines Corp expects to pause hiring for roles as roughly 7,800 jobs could be replaced by Artificial Intelligence
Cambridge’s successful COVID experiment at giving poor families $500 month will continue, and grow from 130 to to 2,000 people
By Janelle Nanos See original post here. For years, Mabell Acevedo struggled each month to make ends meet. As
Calls for universal basic income in Singapore on May Day
By: Jewel Stolarchuk See original post here. Red Dot United (RDU) has proposed several measures to uplift Singapore workers in
One Way to Help Prevent Child Abuse? Give Parents Cash.
By: LINDSEY ROSE BULLINGER See original post here. In 2021, when many American families were suffering from the financial fallout
Basic income could help create a more just and sustainable food system
By: Kristen Lowitt and Charles Z. Levkoe See original post here. Canada’s food system is experiencing ongoing stresses from supply chain
As more people than ever before need help from Trussell Trust food banks, the charity is calling for an ‘essentials guarantee’
More people than ever before are turning to food banks because they cannot afford to eat. Food banks face
29 mayors are granting residents hundreds of dollars in monthly cash. Recipients are less stressed and securing better-paying jobs.
By: Alexa Spencer See original post here. Imagine being a mother of teenage sons who beg you to play sports,
CEOs like Jamie Dimon, Warren Buffett, and Elon Musk want the government to fight inequality and ‘reignite the American dream’
By: Ethan Dodd See original post here. KEY POINTS: Corporations have long wanted the US government to just get
The AI boom is built on data, the data comes from the internet, and the internet came from us.
By: Scott Rosenberg See original post here. The AI boom is built on data, the data comes from the internet, and
New Zealand-based writer says artists need universal basic income
By: Federico Magrin See original post here. A writer who has launched an online campaign to raise funds for
Your town might be sitting on pandemic cash it could use to build a grocery store or launch a guaranteed-basic-income pilot
By: Juliana Kaplan See original post here. KEY POINTS: When the pandemic hit, older people in Charleston, West Virginia,
South Korea to pay $490 a month to encourage reclusive youths to leave their homes
See original post here. Social recluses go to great lengths to avoid personal contact and many live in self-imposed
Opinion: Why the Canadian government should make the grocery rebate permanent
By: Wayne Simpson See original post here. One of the most anticipated measures of the 2023 Canadian federal budget is the grocery
Sunak attacks Labour over basic income payments to young asylum seekers
By: David Deans See original post here. The prime minister has attacked Welsh Labour for allowing some asylum seeker
Opinion: Why Milton Friedman’s free market needs basic income
By: Joshua Preiss See original post here. Universal basic income is an idea usually associated with the political left.