By Yamil Berard, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Payments help autistic child get therapy, family avoid eviction, couple cope with job loss, mother pay bills After being homeless,
Even people who built rainy day funds over years are watching their savings run down to zero, with no relief from the government in sight.
Give a Buck is Mashable’s deep dive into Universal Basic Income — an idea gaining currency in a time of pandemic and mass unemployment. Now more
I recently had the chance to correspond with award-winning photographer Jessie Golem. Her outstanding and well-renowned photography series “Humans of Basic Income” turned heads and
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
If guaranteed income is an attempt to provide people with more resources—resources that come with very few restrictions—it demands a conversation with the people who
Child poverty shames the United States. The richest country in the world counts one in five of its children as poor, the 10th highest rate among the 36
Nearly 1 in 5 American children is officially poor. That’s roughly 15 million kids. But the number living with a significant deprivation–insufficient food, seriously overcrowded
Canada can afford to eliminate poverty, support the middle class and dramatically shrink the gap between the rich and poor by introducing an annual basic income of
When Dontae Lartigue left foster care right before his 19th birthday in 2009, finding housing in Santa Clara County was one of his biggest obstacles.
Out of the three members of Liverpool’s trident attack, Sadio Mané is probably the most low-key when it comes to featuring in the sports press. But
For about 15 years, Germany offered a social assistance benefit that was widely considered the opposite of basic income. Any single, adult German resident who
On Sunday, Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) announced a bipartisan plan to do something pretty extraordinary: establish a basic income for children
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,
Economists have long argued that people should give each other money rather than gifts, since it is hard to know what others truly want. Though
Guest Editorial by Almaz Zelleke, Associate Professor of Practice in Political Science, NYU Shanghai Fifty years ago, on August 8th, 1969, President Nixon proposed a
