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Georgia basic income pilot seems to be working
Georgia pilot gives 650 predominantly Black women $850 a month for two years, no strings attached – and it seems to be working
A Basic Income for Everybody: Why the Musicians’ Union Backs UBI
The MU’s motion backing UBI was presented at TUC Young Workers Conference. We assess the concept, history, and feasibility of UBI.
Support Grows For No-Strings-Attached Cash For Families To Prevent Foster Care Removals
Researcher Will Schneider discusses the optimism for and potential limitations of cash transfers as a way to decrease child maltreatment.
Towards a European universal basic income
This proposal for a European basic income is innovative and opens up opportunities for the majority of the population.
Washington, D.C., Pilot Gives $500 Per Month to Black Mothers with CPS Cases
A nonprofit in Washington, D.C., has launched a guaranteed income pilot program supporting Black mothers with current or recent child welfare involvement.
A.I. is on a collision course with white-collar, high-paid jobs — and with unknown impact
Data suggests there’s been a “pretty significant uptick” in the number of employers looking for workers with AI-related skills.
Give kids an income. It will save money in the long run.
Research shows that guaranteeing employment or a basic income helps reduce violence and prevent people from entering the criminal system.
Many people feel they work in pointless, meaningless jobs, research confirms
The theory that many people feel the work they do is pointless because their jobs are “bullshit” has been confirmed by a new study.
45 percent of Americans are concerned about the effect AI will have on their work
With Hollywood’s actors and writers striking over concerns about AI, what was once a movie premise now has come to define the film industry.
Opinion: How a UBI Tied to GDP Could Distribute Automation’s Bounty
As productivity rises with automation, a UBI tied to GDP per capita could help distribute the dividends equitably.
A Revolution by Stealth? Basic Income Experiments Proliferate
Our author looks at the growing number of basic income trials and pilots around the world, and the evidence gained from them.
Denver’s universal basic income project reports early success
A report from the Denver Income Project found giving people experiencing homelessness free money is a meaningful way to improve their lives.
The NHS is 75: could a universal basic income be our next ‘national religion’?
The NHS is loved because it is there for all of us. Could basic income play the same role for our generation?
Could a basic income scheme save the NHS tens of billions of pounds?
Health Europa looks at how a basic income scheme could revolutionize NHS funding, potentially saving billions of pounds.
Could a Universal Basic Income be the answer to cost of living woes?
Is a Universal Basic Income merely a utopian concept, or can it be a viable solution that can effectively work in Australia? Experts weigh in.
How “windfall profits” from AI companies could fund a universal basic income
Companies like OpenAI and Google could make unthinkable profits from successful AI. Will they share the wealth?
27% of jobs at high risk from AI revolution, says OECD
Over a quarter of jobs in the OECD rely on skills that could be easily automated, and workers fear they could lose their jobs to AI
Opinion: Why every adult should get $500 a week from the government, no questions asked
Everald Compton advocates that every adult in Australia be given $500 a week, regardless of their job status or wealth.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman launches Worldcoin crypto UBI project
Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, launched on Monday providing new digital passport.
Basic income as a public health measure could save NHS billions
New research has found that a Basic Income scheme could potentially save the National Health Service (NHS) tens of billions of pounds.
Pennsylvania state lawmakers to introduce legislation for universal basic income study
Pennsylvania lawmakers said they plan to introduce legislation directing an agency to study the efficacy of a universal basic income program.
Every U.S. city testing guaranteed basic income
Guaranteed income programs have been launched in more than a dozen cities across the U.S. Is this the start of true Universal Basic Income?
UBI Book Review: Citizen’s Basic Income: A Multidisciplinary Approach by Malcolm Torry
This book explores what a range of different academic disciplines have to say about universal basic income.
More cities are offering no-strings-attached cash to residents. Here’s what Philly can learn.
Philly will join the ranks of cities such as Durham, N.C., using guaranteed basic income as a tool to address systemic racism.
Go for Universal Basic Income, urges professor in Malaysia
There is no need for more targeted subsidy schemes if Malaysia can roll out a Universal Basic Income scheme, says an economist.
She ditched her day job to pursue her art with a basic income grant from Ireland
Elinor O’Donovan was among 2,000 artists chosen to receive crucial funding to support their creative endeavors.
A New Kind of Disaster Aid: Pay People Cash, Before Disaster Strikes
Disasters can push the world’s poorest deeper into poverty. Now aid agencies are trying something new. They’re giving small bits of cash to people just before disaster strikes, instead of waiting until afterward.
Artificial Intelligence Can’t Work Without Our Data. We Should All Be Paid For It.
For four decades, Alaskans have opened their mailboxes to find checks waiting for them, their cut of the black gold beneath their feet. This is Alaska’s Permanent Fund, funded by the state’s oil revenues and paid to every Alaskan each year. We’re now in a different sort of resource rush, with companies peddling bits instead of oil: generative AI.
Opinion: We can reduce police brutality with guaranteed basic income
The recent court-enforceable settlement agreement between the city of Minneapolis and the Minnesota Department of Human Rights could be a historic step in combating police brutality. However, the agreement fails to contextualize police brutality as a byproduct of poverty. By failing to recognize the role of poverty in over-policing, it disincentivizes the city, and the state from instituting long-term, anti-poverty measures, such as guaranteed basic income that would address a root cause of crime that in turn plays a role in police brutality.
Artificial intelligence + basic income = Canadian innovation
The recent explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize the workforce. ChatGPT reached 100 million users in just two months after its launch. It and other generative AI applications have the potential to increase the efficiency of more than 50 per cent of all worker tasks in the U.S., with no loss in quality. A recent report estimates that AI’s boost to labour productivity can increase annual global GDP by seven per cent over a 10-year period.
Japan’s Economy Minister Sees Universal Basic Income in Japan’s AI Future
Japan is laying the groundwork to become home to some of the world’s top companies in artificial intelligence
The circle of obligation and the mandatory-participation “social contract” (Mandatory Participation on Trial, Part 12)
Many people have imagined a workers’ revolution that cuts out property owners and establishes a true circle-of-obligation. As always, let me see the plan. Maybe it solves some of the problems I’ve mentioned, but no plan solves the insider-outsider problems inherent in politics. Wishful thinking about everyone becoming better people after the revolution won’t make the self-serving bias of people in power go away.