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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
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
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
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
Opinion: ChatGPT must lead to basic income for everyone and an end to bullshit jobs
By: Javed Anwer In the late 1920s, times were hard and the Great Recession shadowed everything. There was a
Guaranteed Income Program Recipients Chosen In Alexandria, Virginia
By: Emily Leayman ALEXANDRIA, VA — Recipients of Alexandria’s ARISE guaranteed income pilot program totaling 170 were chosen and
Opinion: Governments will increasingly be under pressure to help those left behind by ‘globotics’
By: Nouriel Roubini Inflation rose sharply throughout 2022 across both advanced economies and emerging markets. Structural trends suggest that
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
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
Introducing the universal basic income grant in South Africa
See original article here. The majority of South Africans are unable to afford daily bread, basic sanitation, decent housing
AI is finally good at stuff. Now what?
By Rebecca Heilweil See original post here. A few weeks ago, Wharton professor Ethan Mollick told his MBA students to
Update on the Catalonia UBI pilot
By: Peter Knight See original post here. The Universal Basic Income (UBI) pilot plan is one of the projects that
We Are Not Prepared for the Coming Surge of Babies
By Melissa Jeltsen See original post here. A typical pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks. Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision
Artists stage mass protest against AI-generated artwork on ArtStation
By: BENJ EDWARDS On Tuesday, members of the online community ArtStation began widely protesting AI-generated artwork by placing “No
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
We Are Not Prepared for the Coming Surge of Babies
By: Melissa Jeltsen A typical pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks. Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that created a
An all-party committee is tackling the question of whether basic income could work in Newfoundland and Labrador
By: Malone Mullin An all-party committee is tackling the question of whether a basic income program could work in
San Francisco’s guaranteed income program for pregnant Black and Pacific Islander women has now been expanded statewide
By: Margaret Hetherwick San Francisco’s Abundant Births Project, a basic income program for Black and Pacific Islander families to
Expert panel advocates ‘gradual phasing-in’ of basic income grant
By: Naledi Sikhakhane ‘We will fight, we will soldier on even to the extent that we will ensure that
Web3 investor Li Jin thinks a Universal Creative Income can help bolster the ‘passion economy’
By: YASMIN GAGNE Li Jin was one of the first Venture Capitalists to take online creators seriously and back
UN food agency FAO providing three months of unconditional cash payments to 6,050 drought-impacted families in Somalia
See original post here. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said on Tuesday it has stepped up the
Food banks fear rising demand will outpace supply, decades after they were deemed temporary
By: Kate Bueckert See original post here. Food banks aren’t supposed to exist in 2022. They were started in
Opinion: Hourly wages are embarrassing. Canadians need to talk far more about basic income.
By: Wendy Elliott See original article here. In Prince Edward Island, an all-party committee of the Legislative Assembly has
How $500 a month in guaranteed income is changing young people’s lives in Louisville
By: Bailey Loosemore It felt like winning the lottery. Weeks after a friend suggested she apply for a new Louisville
Make UBI a right in independent Scotland, campaigners say
By: Hamish Morrison On Tuesday, Basic Income Network Scotland (BINS) will launch a new year-long campaign to pressure politicians
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 Enhanced Child Tax Credit Is Gone. The Battle Over It Remains.
By: Jason DeParle WASHINGTON — When the history of American hardship is written in some distant decade, two recent
California awards $25 million to guaranteed income programs across state
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The state of California announced Monday $25 million to underwrite the first state-funded guaranteed income pilot programs, which could
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
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