Reality Check By: Gisele Huff, Founder and President of Fund for Humanity I despair. Because of the extraordinary, devastating …
Andrew Yang’s nonprofit is partnering with the $1K Project to bring $1,000 direct monthly payments to struggling US families …
Santa Clara County foster youth begin receiving $1,000 a month By: Katie Lauer Paid rent, a full stomach and …
Argument: Terminal Deflation Is Coming BY TREVOR JACKSON Public health efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic have brought about …
Give a Buck is Mashable’s deep dive into Universal Basic Income — an idea gaining currency in a time of …
Interim acting co-leader of the Lib Dems, Sir Ed Davey MP, has today signed a cross-party letter to the Chancellor …
According to an April 6 article on CNBC.com, Spain is slated to become the first country in Europe to introduce a …
Universal basic income — a monthly payment to everyone sufficient to meet basic needs — could end poverty overnight. …
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on how universal basic income will protect Americans as automation shrinks the workforce, especially those living …
Intro by Scott Santens: In a prime example of how bureaucracy functions as a roadblock to lifesaving income assistance, …
by Stacey Rutland Income Movement Scarcity mindsets and models drive most modern economic theory: collectively, we believe that wealth …
America’s Social Safety Net Wasn’t Ready For The Coronavirus Crisis Stories from the new economic reality By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux Graphics …
MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SUPPORT MONTHLY CASH ASSISTANCE TO OFFSET PANDEMIC DAMAGE TO ECONOMY New polling finds strong bipartisan support …
We’re down to single digits. Eight Democratic presidential candidates remain after three dropped out this week: Senator Michael Bennet …
Andrew Yang’s bid for the Democratic nomination is over, but supporters of his basic income policy say his campaign …
Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang today launched Humanity Forward, a nonprofit organization intended to embody the spirit of the …
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Andrew Yang — the unknown entrepreneur turned Democratic presidential candidate — is ending his presidential …
Forty years ago today—February 7, 1980—was a small milestone for the Universal Basic Income (UBI) movement: Milton and Rose Friedman dedicated …
The Congressional Budget Office just projected a series of $1 trillion budget deficits—as far as the eye can see. Narrowing …
Universal Basic Income (UBI) is the proposal that the state should provide a guaranteed income floor to everybody, as …
Chad Sziszak didn’t believe it at first. He got an email from Andrew Yang’s campaign that he would receive …
The idea of an unconditional basic income (UBI) floor where everyone starts with the same minimum amount of money as everyone …
For about a decade now, the charity GiveDirectly has been distributing cash straight to poor residents in sub-Saharan Africa, starting in …
Economists have long argued that people should give each other money rather than gifts, since it is hard to …
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: What would you do with an extra 500 bucks a month, no strings attached? Well, thanks …
Support for universal basic income (UBI) is on the rise, according to a new Hill-HarrisX poll released on Wednesday. …
Here political philosopher and economist Karl Widerquist argues that UBI is required as compensation for the creation of property …
It’s based on the dividends that accrue to Americans because of their everyday contributions as workers, consumers, caregivers and …
What if we just give people money? This is the question propelling several new books and that’s been taken …
(CNN) Quick. Tell me the six highest-polling Democrats in the 2020 Democratic race. The first few are easy: Joe …
The opportunity to fail is a privilege afforded to a narrow subset of Americans. Risk and reward are two …
First published on May 31, 2019 A new study links an extra $1,000 a year paid through Alaska’s Permanent …
After the article “A Critical Poverty Eradication Experiment in Kenya”, published in the last issue of the BIEN News …
Chuck Fassi, 49, a self-described introvert with a heavy New England accent, has spent much of the past two …
Two competing (or, possibly, complementary?) proposals for resolving income inequality and the hole that four decades of demand-side Reaganomics …
Thousands of people could be put out of work by robots in reading in the next 20 years. Although …
James Collura was a recipient of basic income in Ontario’s recently cancelled Basic Income Pilot experiment. This is his …
Consider for a moment that from this day forward, on the first day of every month, around $1,000 is …
Chicago Alderman Ameya Pawar is worried about the future. He is concerned that a coming wave of automation could …
Andy Stern spent his career organizing service workers, fighting for higher wages and improving working conditions as head of …
This week, former U.S. President Barack Obama tentatively endorsed the idea of a universal basic income. The fortune of …
Each month, 1,000 struggling Chicagoans would get $1,000, no strings attached, to help break the cycle of poverty, under …
