Thousands of auto workers for the three-largest U.S. carmakers walked off the job last week because their pay has only increased fractionally in the wake of the auto companies’ soaring profits.
By Lisa Stiffler Original article: https://www.geekwire.com/2021/guaranteed-income-program-backed-by-twitters-jack-dorsey-begins-in-tacoma-families-get-500-month/ The 110 Tacoma, Wash., families chosen to participate in a guaranteed income program received their first $500 check this month,
This $1000-a-month universal basic income program is designed to help foster youth survive California’s Santa Clara County will start giving cash to people transitioning out
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Houston’s basic-income program faces shutdown after Texas’ attorney general labels it “unconstitutional.”
An innovative federal-provincial partnership would virtually eradicate poverty among working-age adults and their children, report shows.
The once-scoffed at idea of guaranteed income is receiving renewed interest as AI becomes an increasing threat to Americans’ jobs.
Basic income advocates say the concept is an effective way of reducing poverty.
Green deputy leader tells conference coming year is ‘pivotal’ and she is ‘absolutely committed’ to new public broadcasting funding model
Ontario Premier Doug Ford exchanges words with former NDP leader Andrea Horwath during Question Period at Queen’s Park in Toronto on July 31, 2018.
A badly designed system and what one MP called ‘shocking ineptitude’ at the DWP has created hardship
Paxton sued Harris County for implementing a guaranteed income program, called Uplift Harris, which would give $500 a month to nearly 2,000 low income households over an 18-month period.
A conservative group is suing San Francisco over a guaranteed basic income program for trans people.
Sen. Bill Dotzler, 75, called the last two legislative sessions the “worst attack” on low-income and working-class Iowans he has ever seen.
Conservatives have an opportunity to prepare the Canadian economy, labour market, and social policy framework for the radically different economic future that is rapidly approaching.
Minnesota could be one of the first states in the nation to pilot a basic income program, with lawmakers considering a $100 million proposal that would provide up to 10,000 people hundreds of dollars every month.
Interest in universal basic income has grown due to the pandemic, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and economic pain.
Riko Niyomwungere is a North Seattle College student who participated in a recent guaranteed basic income pilot.
While India is a rich site of several Basic Income Pilots held by Research and Governmental agencies, there is a recent uptrend in the number of cash-based social policies in several states, especially with evidence that shows a marked increase in several indicators of a better life.
Sheffield GP Jack Czauderna explores a fascinating experiment from 100 years ago that turned how we think about health upside down – and that could sit alongside the NHS today.
Ingrid Sullivan, 48, was able to afford rent and groceries with San Antonio’s basic-income program.
Christopher Santiago recalls being skeptical the first time he heard about basic income — giving people cash with no conditions on how to spend it.
While the concept stretches back centuries, it has garnered significant attention in recent decades.
The Guaranteed Income Pilot Program Act of 2023 is one of the many plans that lawmakers have introduced to help improve the lives of many people in the United States.
Schemes to replace EU subsidies will not plug gap left by loss of EU subsidies for most farmers
Can a universal benefit address poverty, reduce inequality and promote public health?
Perhaps soon basic income will seem like a worthwhile “thing” in the world, like universal suffrage or the right to divorce.
National coalition advocates in favor of cash-based policies to create opportunity
On 13 March, the University of Cape Town (UCT) welcomed Nobel Laureate Professor Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, an expert in development economics, for an open lecture on the potential transformative effects of universal basic income in the developing world.
The Government of Ontario is facing a class action lawsuit brought on by four Lindsay residents on behalf of 4,000 people who had participated in the Ontario Basic Income Pilot.
Should artists whose work was used to train generative AI like ChatGPT be compensated for their contributions?
Nearly half of parents with a child older than 18 provide them with at least some financial support, according to a recent report.
For parents, however, supporting grown children can be a substantial drain at a time when their own retirement security is at risk.
The programs tracked participants spending on debit cards and found most spent it on basic needs like food, rent and gas.
San Antonio gave low-income residents $5,108 each in a guaranteed basic income pilot. They used the money to pay for housing and other necessities.
The Portland City Council’s Housing and Economic Development Committee recently released a draft of their 2024 Work Plan, which includes exploring the implementation of a universal basic income (UBI) and a possible increase of the city’s minimum wage to $20 per hour.
When OpenResearch begins sharing the results of its research, it plans to cover study recipients’ time use, mental and physical health, decision-making, crime, politics and social attitudes, and effects on children.
Buntley has made ends meet thanks to the $500 he receives every month from the city of Rochester with no strings attached, and no requirement to pay it back.
House File 2666 would provide the $500 per month for 18 to 24 months to eligible recipients statewide.
What would you do if you suddenly had an extra $400 every month?Dante used it to set up a bank account and get a credit card. His credit score is now a solid 712.
Five years ago this February, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) underwent an overhaul of its appellate process when it implemented the Appeals Modernization Act.
The bill would specifically ban a pilot program called UpLift that provides a guaranteed income of $500 a month to 110 people in central Iowa.
The pilot program would offer monthly payments of $1,400 for three years
In an ambitious move to combat young adult poverty, Democratic Representatives Morgan McGarvey and Bonnie Watson Coleman have introduced legislation aiming to grant every member of Generation Z in the U.S. a $500 monthly payment.
By providing a guaranteed minimum income to all young people under the age of 30 who are out of work or further education, the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration in this city hopes to encourage more people to enter the workforce. But will they bother to work then?
In five states, Republican politicians are trying to ban programs that provide low-income people with monthly payments of $500 to $1,000 for a year or two, with no strings attached.
Harris County’s guaranteed basic income program received more than 82,000 applications from residents before the online portal closed earlier this month
The Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission announced that a guaranteed income pilot would finally come to Fresno County after the area missed out on funding from the state last year.
Results from Arlington’s first guaranteed income pilot reveal that an additional $500 per month significantly enhanced the quality of life for impoverished families.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa is looking to try make the shift to a Basic Income Grant a reality following renewed calls in this year’s ANC’s January 8th statement – but questions have arisen as to how the country is going to fund it.
L.A. County’s Breathe program gives participants $1,000 monthly for three years, more money over a longer period than similar programs.
Two hundred low-income households in Minneapolis are receiving $500 a month for two years.
In 2022, the D.C. government announced a pilot program that offered 132 new and expecting low-income mothers $10,800 over the course of a year — no strings attached — intended to assess how unconditional cash payments could improve their families’ outcomes and economic mobility.
For Alaskans, the concept behind universal basic income has been alive and well for the last 40 years.
Washington Democrats want to give 7,500 low-income state residents recurring cash payments for two years, no strings attached.
People who experience stressful life events or circumstances are more likely to have worse biological health, as indicated by biomarkers involved in the interaction between our immune, nervous and endocrine systems, according to a new study by UCL researchers.
Too many experiments in paying struggling households a set stipend are too short. It’s time to move on to tests that last five to 10 years to really prove the concept works.
For one year, low-income families in Austin, Texas, received $1,000 a month to do whatever they wanted; they spent it on rent and “substantially” improved their situations.
A wave of experimentation in the way that U.S. cities, counties, and states support households with low incomes is sweeping the country, and Minneapolis is at the leading edge.
South Africa needs to revisit and rethink the use and role of its social security system, not as a poverty alleviation tool, but as a demand-side economic stimulus to meet short-term economic growth.
BMW’s newest autoworker is 5’6,” 130 pounds, walks on two legs, uses five-fingered hands to assemble machines — and takes a break every five hours to stroll to a charging station and plug itself in.
Basic Income Project’s new funding includes $2 million expected from city; program helps more than 800
The 40-year trickle-down delusion, fashioned by right-wing economists, politicians, and financial experts, has deprived average Americans of the means to support their families in a comfortable, debt-free manner. It was planned. It’s insidious. It’s ongoing. And it should outrage every last one of us.
Hospitality workers told the Associated Press in interviews over eight months of bargaining that they were willing to take a cut in pay while on strike to win stronger job protection against inevitable advancements in technology.
Kristalina Georgieva said now is the time to act to create a set of policies ensuring the impact of AI is beneficial not detrimental to humanity.
Bettencourt asked the Texas attorney general to weigh in on whether the plan to give $500 monthly stipends violates the Texas Constitution.
These L.A. residents got $1,000 a month. What happened after the cash stopped?
Calling taxpayer-funded basic income programs “insane,” “socialism on steroids” and “an attack on American values,” a pair of Republican state lawmakers on Thursday advanced legislation that would prohibit such programs in Iowa.
Aurora aims to deploy a dozen or so self-driving trucks this year, with an eye toward having thousands on the road in 2027.
The proposed tax package includes several changes concerning business deductions, international trade, housing, and families.
“This inequality is no accident; the billionaire class is ensuring corporations deliver more wealth to them at the expense of everyone else,” said Oxfam’s interim executive director.
The innovative Basic Income for the Arts scheme offers artists a payment of €325 per week. Broadly welcomed in the sector when introduced in 2022, we look at how the pilot project has been doing
Technology should have reduced our work hours. Why hasn’t it?
A new cash-assistance program will provide money to the mothers of newborns Audrina Gatica and Khim’Meir Taylor, who were thrust into the spotlight Wednesday as the program officially opened for applicants.
Two years after the expiration of the expanded child tax credit, a pandemic-era policy that temporarily but dramatically lowered child poverty rates, federal lawmakers are close to a bipartisan deal that may reinstate some version of the credit.
Data is in for the nation’s first mayor-led guaranteed income pilot to use public dollars, and results show positive trends in employment, physical and mental health, and other indicators of well-being and quality of life.
There’s a pilot program called (Cook County) Promise that’s been giving thousands of low-to- moderate-income families $500 in cash every month to help them meet basic needs
Goldbug is funding a guaranteed income pilot for pregnant women—the first privately financed program like it in the country.
A universal basic income will not only benefit those suffering from poverty, but will also provide a more stable economy for all Australians. William Bourke reports.
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40 years on, food banks are doing nothing for the majority of nearly 6 million hungry Canadians. Experts say something needs to change
The program providing provided guaranteed, no-strings-attached monthly incomes
“This program has given our youth the power and autonomy to make the choices that most benefit them,” Mayor Latoya Cantrell said in a 2022 news release.
“Uplift Harris” aims to give financial relief to low-income families in the county, with parties receiving $500 a month for 18 months.
If 100 homeless people were given $750 per month for a year, no questions asked, what would they spend it on?
More than one-quarter of all household wealth, 26.5%, belongs to Americans who earn enough money to rank in the top percentile by income, according to Federal Reserve statistics through mid-2023.
Among the findings are that depression and anxiety experienced in the previous 4 weeks to the scheme decreased by almost 10%.
Independence would allow us to ensure a real living wage for all and introduce a Universal Basic Income.
Researchers at the University of Chicago have been studying guaranteed income programs in the region, but there are some results data alone can’t reveal. So, one Chicago-based sociologist spoke with people receiving monthly cash assistance to find out more about the difference it makes in their lives.
Some people’s lives are harder now than they were three years ago because the government is doing less.
Guaranteed income pilot programs are springing up across the country, including here in Maine, and a campaign to create the building blocks for a statewide program in Maine is ramping up.
The Welsh government has announced that its universal basic income (UBI) project will not be continued after the initial pilot ends in 2025 because of the cost.
On Prince Edward Island, a recent report has outlined how the province could reduce poverty by adopting a basic income. Meanwhile in Ottawa, the Senate is considering developing a framework for a national basic income. Momentum behind a basic income is clearly growing in Canada.
Advocates say that “no-strings attached” funding puts participants on a path to financial security because they often use the money to cover basic necessities, pay off debt, and build up savings.
The climate and cost of living crises make belief in expanding GDPs look as stale as last year’s mince pies. But when central governments rely on consumerism to shore up spending, it will be hard for ‘degrowth’ to gain any traction
Vast majority of US workers admit artificial intelligence tools could replace them, according to a recent survey
The rapid emergence of AI technology has fueled fears that people could lose their jobs to a deep learning machine that can perform their tasks more efficiently. However, new research suggests that so far, AI is actually creating jobs, though it may have a negative effect on wages.
One of the big questions GiveDirectly is trying to answer is how to direct cash to low-income households.
TACOMA, Wash. – Tacoma’s guaranteed income program ‘GRIT’ could be on track to help another round of participants over the next two years.
At the start of the pandemic, I wrote a piece about a four-day week and a universal basic income (UBI). I highlighted the huge changes that were coming because of AI and the need to go carbon neutral.
“AI is hard to compete with if you go head to head,” he added. “You have to find something it cannot do.”
“Guaranteed basic income” pilot programs are running in communities all over the country, both liberal and conservative. The idea could become the next big public controversy.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates that the bottom third of Scottish households with children will, on average, be around £2,000-a-year better off than similar English households.
There were 10,849 eviction filings in Denver County this year, the highest number since the 2008 financial crisis.
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — Prince George’s County is launching Thrive Prince George’s, a program that seeks to provide economic stability and mobility for families in the County.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu says she backs the concept of universal basic income. What she doesn’t want is another limited pilot like the ones that have spread across the country.
We’ve been fighting poverty all wrong
For Briana Jones, a young Black mother in San Francisco, a city program called the Abundant Birth Project has been a godsend.
Report out Wednesday says how much program would cost and how to pay for it
Sequaya Coleman, with her daughter, was randomly selected to receive $1,000 a month, no strings attached, for a year from the Magnolia Mother’s Trust.
While it is still considered by many to be a radical concept, proponents of a universal basic income (UBI) no longer see it only as a solution to poverty but as the answer to some of the biggest threats faced by modern workers
As climate change has made annual rains ever more intense, the deforested areas have become increasingly prone to deadly mudslides.
The policy planks come two weeks before Liberal members vote for the new leader
Gearóid O’Dea explains how the BIA pilot scheme has enabled him to worry less and concentrate more on developing his painting career
The Denver Basic Income Project has received a $2 million commitment from the City of Denver in its 2024 budget, and is in talks to determine next steps, according to Donovan.
The Newfoundland and Labrador government is launching a basic income program for residents aged 60 to 64, part of a poverty reduction plan announced Wednesday that some advocates say could make a real difference.
There was no questioning the impact, she told Insider: The money “helped me keep my life afloat.”
More than a quarter of Santa Clara County families struggle to afford their basic needs. To lift thousands of them out of poverty, a new study recommends guaranteed monthly payments — with no strings attached.
As the Senate considers a bill that would require the creation of a national framework for basic income, supporters in Ontario say the stories of pilot participants make it clear basic income works.
Durham’s mayor pro tempore, Mark-Anthony Middleton, who helped oversee the program, had been advocating for his city to introduce a basic income for years.
Recent experiences like the COVID-19 pandemic have brutally highlighted that traditional policy tools are inadequate in protecting the weakest sections of India.
Jasmine, 18, has had a long history with social services and says she’s spent her life moving around
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — L.A. County’s guaranteed income program, Breathe, is giving 1,000 residents $1,000 a month for three years.
I believe local currencies, like the system in Marica, can be a powerful business development model for towns and villages in the UK, especially those losing out to online sales or nearby large cities.
Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip Jane Hutt has praised the progress and uptake of the basic income pilot scheme after meeting care leavers taking part in the programme.
I’ve been following debates on guaranteed income for almost a decade, and one thing that’s stood out is that universal basic income (UBI), a regular cash payment to all citizens with no strings attached, is like a Rorschach test.
The Nobel prize winner and author of new book Economics in America argues economists must get back to serving society
One million children were living in extreme poverty in 2022, according to estimates by a research charity
If CEOs had their way, their workers would be back in the office and pursuing AI advancements at the same time.
Last year the Good Party identified the implementation of a BIG as SA’s single most important need.
If Brazil’s scheme became permanent it would set a global example, as ‘bolsa familia’ did in the 2000s
Minister of Social Development Lindiwe Zulu says she will approach Cabinet to approve the draft policy on the Basic Income Grant before it is fully implemented.
The Denver Basic Income Project gives cash payments each month to 800 individuals experiencing homelessness, no strings attached.
The Senate is studying a bill that would introduce a framework for a policy that would guarantee access to a livable income to everyone over 17.
The founder of Twitter gave $1 million to the new guaranteed basic income program to help expand its reach in his hometown of St. Louis.
A new documentary featuring a guaranteed basic income experiment in Cambridge shows the good that comes from giving low-income families a little extra help each month.
An NIT sounds very different from a UBI because, well, it sounds like a tax, not a benefit! But as we’ll see, in most circumstances, the two are mathematically equivalent.
Six months ago, the Denver Basic Income Project (DBIP) started giving cash regularly to people experiencing homelessness, no strings attached.
In an experimental program, 5,000 Chicagoans received monthly cash payments from the city for a year, no strings attached. Here’s how the money changed one woman’s life — and how it didn’t.
Income from the Cambridge RISE pilot program helped free up Porchia Willis to take classes at the Massachusetts School of Barbering
Interest is growing, particularly among Western commentators, in arguments that governments should distribute a universal basic income (UBI) to citizens.
The expanded child tax credit was a well-tested solution to child poverty. Bring it back.
A teenager who was given £1,600 a month as part of a government pilot scheme said it helped her rent a flat.
Advocates for the Denver Basic Income Project rallied at the Colorado Capitol on Friday to urge local leaders to support additional funding for the program
The Scottish Child Payment has seen the biggest reduction in inequality caused by a single policy change since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, an Oxford professor has said.
It was useless to make minor changes to the old system. A new system was needed. The evidence was clear.
One fear about Universal Basic Income (UBI) is that it could cause rents to increase, partially or entirely diverting the benefit of UBI to landlords.
The Basic Income Grant (BIG) Coalition of Namibia will be hosting a #NoOneLeftOut Concert in Windhoek on Saturday to celebrate the 16th anniversary of International Basic Income Grant week.
What if, instead of traditional housing vouchers laden with convoluted red tape that landlords notoriously hate, low-income tenants could pay their rent with cash?
Denver Basic Income project leader Mark Donovan sees plenty of proof that his idea of giving out cash works to improve the lives of the homeless.
Simply transferring money to people living in poverty works.
The program is now three quarters of the way done and officials say its yielding a 324% return on investment.
LA’s universal basic income (UBI) pilot program, “BIG: LEAP,” gave participants $1,000 per month for a year.
Program doesn’t just support individuals but has ‘ripple effects for communities,’ Coun. Jen Vasic says
There is already evidence that the generous £400 per week package is being used by these young people to go on courses, or to put down a deposit on a flat.
Many governments—especially those of low and middle-income countries with particularly burdensome debt obligations—have cut social spending and reverted to austerity frameworks.
With a renewed interest in universal basic income (UBI), maybe it is time to reconsider its gendered capabilities
Kalpana is one of the 3,500 economically poor and vulnerable women who received cash as a temporary basic income.
In the United States, the richest 10 percent of households own more than 70 percent of the country’s assets.
‘The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer,’ said Cambridge regional councilor
In an interview with CNBC, Reich discussed how AI will have a profound impact on middle-class workers, creating an impetus for a universal basic income.
Cash transfer programs are forging a path for guaranteed income.
Researchers find homeless people more likely to spend lump sum on housing and food and not ‘temptation goods’ such as alcohol
Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson have committed $10 million to make direct payments to people on Maui who are unable to return to their homes
Fairfax County will be piloting a guaranteed income program for residents in select ZIP codes, offering $750 per month to 180 families for 15 months starting in 2024.
Nearly 12 million Americans in occupations with shrinking demand may need to switch jobs by 2030.
A surge of federal funding from the American Rescue Plan has helped cities develop pilot guaranteed income programs. Will they last?
California officials representing some of the wealthiest cities in the world traveled to one of the poorest villages in Africa this week to study universal basic income
This is one of four guaranteed basic income initiatives being tested by Santa Clara County, most of which are in the planning phase.
Four years ago, we interviewed Hugh Segal for a book on basic income. He was being treated for the disease that ended his life last week.
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman said AI will wipe out some white-collar jobs — and it will be hard to design government programs to help.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, takes on a basic income to address racial disparities and improve birth outcomes
Georgia pilot gives 650 predominantly Black women $850 a month for two years, no strings attached – and it seems to be working
The MU’s motion backing UBI was presented at TUC Young Workers Conference. We assess the concept, history, and feasibility of UBI.
Researcher Will Schneider discusses the optimism for and potential limitations of cash transfers as a way to decrease child maltreatment.
This proposal for a European basic income is innovative and opens up opportunities for the majority of the population.
A nonprofit in Washington, D.C., has launched a guaranteed income pilot program supporting Black mothers with current or recent child welfare involvement.
Data suggests there’s been a “pretty significant uptick” in the number of employers looking for workers with AI-related skills.
Research shows that guaranteeing employment or a basic income helps reduce violence and prevent people from entering the criminal system.
The theory that many people feel the work they do is pointless because their jobs are “bullshit” has been confirmed by a new study.
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.
As productivity rises with automation, a UBI tied to GDP per capita could help distribute the dividends equitably.
Our author looks at the growing number of basic income trials and pilots around the world, and the evidence gained from them.
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 loved because it is there for all of us. Could basic income play the same role for our generation?
Health Europa looks at how a basic income scheme could revolutionize NHS funding, potentially saving billions of pounds.
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.
Companies like OpenAI and Google could make unthinkable profits from successful AI. Will they share the wealth?
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
Everald Compton advocates that every adult in Australia be given $500 a week, regardless of their job status or wealth.
Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, launched on Monday providing new digital passport.
New research has found that a Basic Income scheme could potentially save the National Health Service (NHS) tens of billions of pounds.
Pennsylvania lawmakers said they plan to introduce legislation directing an agency to study the efficacy of a universal basic income program.
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?
This book explores what a range of different academic disciplines have to say about universal basic income.
Philly will join the ranks of cities such as Durham, N.C., using guaranteed basic income as a tool to address systemic racism.
There is no need for more targeted subsidy schemes if Malaysia can roll out a Universal Basic Income scheme, says an economist.
Elinor O’Donovan was among 2,000 artists chosen to receive crucial funding to support their creative endeavors.
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.
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.
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.
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 is laying the groundwork to become home to some of the world’s top companies in artificial intelligence
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.
People aren’t feeling as connected and devoted to their jobs as they did when they were seeing their coworkers in person every day.
Our hero wakes. Using her 3D food printer she prints out a full English breakfast, eating it in the front room of her flat – part of the great house-building of the 2020s.
By The Editorial Board See original post here. India’s single most vexatious economic problem is the lack of adequate employment and earning opportunities for its
It’s Basic, a new documentary premiering at the Tribeca film festival, looks at the US program that gave in-need participants $500 a month
Kipp Kahlia spent several decades touring as a guitarist with reggae artists from Jamaica until illness forced her to put a halt to her career. She began offering private guitar and bass lessons as a stopgap solution, still envisioning herself writing and performing songs some day that championed social justice and fostered understanding and empathy among audiences.
By Becca Costello See original post here. A trio of proposed pilot programs aims to improve financial empowerment for Cincinnati residents. For about $2.1 million in
By Nikki Main See original post here. Depression among adults is on the rise in the U.S., according to a study released Thursday by the Centers for Disease
By Ian Rose See original post here. Until recently Dean Meadowcroft was a copywriter in a small marketing department. His duties included writing press releases,
Guaranteed basic income could make a dent in the ongoing homelessness crisis in San Francisco, advocates say, and an ongoing program seeks to measure the impact of monthly payments to people who are currently unhoused.
Thousands of Chicago and Cook County residents got $500 a month the past year from programs that are aiming to give people a little financial cushion.
When Jailyn Brown was selected to join a pilot program that gives cash to people struggling to make ends meet, the 23-year-old could hardly get enough hours at the retail store in Chicago where she worked to cover her expenses.
By Dana Goldstein See original post here. Colorado joins a growing list of states with bipartisan support for child tax credits, which give parents money, no
News that a universal basic income (UBI) is to be trialled at two locations in England, paying 30 people £1,600 a month regardless of their work, has sent shockwaves through the tabloids.
“Something for nothing” is the way working-class Conservatives have always described out-of-work benefits, with the implication that those receiving them were “spongers”. The idea of actually paying people a good subsistence wage, whether they work or not, is – well – just not capitalism.
KERICHO, Kenya — Kenyan tea pickers are destroying machines brought in to replace them during violent protests that highlight the challenge faced by workers as more agribusiness companies rely on automation to cut costs.
Universal basic dividend (UBD) is a mechanism by which each member of a given society receives a regular payment, with no or very limited conditionality, typically based on recognising the value of common resources, or of public investment in the capitalist economy. This post explores the potential benefits and limitations of this idea, summarising the policy brief recently published by the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.
By Matthew T. Johnson and Elliott Johnson See original article here. In October 1936, 200 men marched from South Tyneside to London to protest against the poverty
By Pat Kane See original post here. WHEN speaking on BBC Scotland’s excellent Debate Night show on Wednesday, I was lobbed a perfectly formed audience question. It
By Berliner Zeitung.Translation by Raymond R. Watson, M.A. According to a study people, particularly young people, are infavor of a basic income. Even those who
By Spectator Editorial, The Hamilton Spectator. See original post here. Hamilton city council did a smart thing this week by unanimously supporting a motion from Coun.
By Nikolas Lanum See original post here. The co-creator of the social humanoid robot Sophia says artifical general intelligence (AGI) and super AGI are mere decades
By: Claire Benny See original post here. Income inequality has been linked to poor physical and mental health in past research, but more recent evidence
By: Apoorva Mandavilli See original post here. Cash grants made directly to poor families or individuals have led to fewer deaths among women and young
By: Dahaba Ali Hussen See original post here. A universal basic income of £1,600 a month is to be trialled in England for the first time in
See original post here. The Oregon Rebate (IP 2024-017) ballot initiative campaign has announced early success in collecting the necessary signatures to qualify for the
By: Ahmed Elbas See original post here. While the proposition may appear daunting, the exploration of Universal Basic Income (UBI) for both Israelis and Palestinians
By: Leila Patel See original post here. South Africa has one of the world’s most expansive social grant systems: 47% of the population relies on
By: Emiel de Lange, Visiting researcher, The University of Edinburgh | Jocelyne Sze, PhD Candidate in Conservation and Biodiversity, University of Sheffield | Robert Fletcher,
By: KATHERINE HEMPSTEAD See original post here. We’ve reached an inflection point in our economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The unemployment rate currently stands
By: JANAE BOWENS and KONNER MCINTIRE See original post here. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides nutrition benefits to more than 42 million Americans. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.,
By: Jeremy Hsu See original post here. Could AI soon write your favourite Hollywood film or streaming show? That concern is one of the issues driving
By: Kit Heren See original post here. The cost-cutting came as the company reported a 12% drop in annual profits on Thursday. A “big chunk”
By: Sarah Holder See original post here. A monthly cash payment program for new mothers in New York is going from pilot project to permanent
Food banks are increasingly “taking over from the welfare state”, former Labour PM Gordon Brown has warned, amid growing concerns that lack of state support
By: JANET SHAMLIAN See original post here. Adriana Flores, a single mother of two boys, watches every dollar, and even though she works full-time as
By: KHRISTOPHER J. BROOKS See original post here. Rising interest rates, inflation and unstable income are damaging the mental well-being of a growing number of
By: Pete Syme See original post here. A co-founder of DeepMind, the AI company bought by Google in 2014, warned about AI-related job losses. Mustafa
By: Eugenia LOGIURATTO See original post here. Artificial intelligence could replace 80 percent of human jobs in the coming years — but that’s a good
ByCosmin Dzsurdzsa See original post here. The Liberal Party of Canada held its policy convention over the weekend where delegates debated and voted on a
By: Connor Axiotes (Adam Smith Institute) | Nikhil Woodruff (UBI Centre & Policy Engine) | Scott Santens (Humanity Forward) See original post here. ‘Automation has
NEW ORLEANS , May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The 50 Dollar Study was named a Finalist in the Social Justice Category of Fast Company ‘s 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards. The seventh
International Business Machines Corp expects to pause hiring for roles as roughly 7,800 jobs could be replaced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the coming years, CEO
By Janelle Nanos See original post here. For years, Mabell Acevedo struggled each month to make ends meet. As a single mom, she needed to
By: Jewel Stolarchuk See original post here. Red Dot United (RDU) has proposed several measures to uplift Singapore workers in today’s challenging post-COVID world in its
By: LINDSEY ROSE BULLINGER See original post here. In 2021, when many American families were suffering from the financial fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, the federal
By: Kristen Lowitt and Charles Z. Levkoe See original post here. Canada’s food system is experiencing ongoing stresses from supply chain disruptions, price inflation and extreme weather
More people than ever before are turning to food banks because they cannot afford to eat. Food banks face a “pressure cooker” situation as they
By: Alexa Spencer See original post here. Imagine being a mother of teenage sons who beg you to play sports, but you can’t afford to buy
By: Ethan Dodd See original post here. KEY POINTS: Corporations have long wanted the US government to just get out of the way. Now, some
By: Scott Rosenberg See original post here. The AI boom is built on data, the data comes from the internet, and the internet came from us. Driving
By: Federico Magrin See original post here. A writer who has launched an online campaign to raise funds for her first novel, says artists are in
By: Juliana Kaplan See original post here. KEY POINTS: When the pandemic hit, older people in Charleston, West Virginia, suddenly found themselves with a lot
See original post here. Social recluses go to great lengths to avoid personal contact and many live in self-imposed isolation for an extended period. South
By: Wayne Simpson See original post here. One of the most anticipated measures of the 2023 Canadian federal budget is the grocery rebate. The rebate is designed to
By: David Deans See original post here. The prime minister has attacked Welsh Labour for allowing some asylum seeker children to take part in Wales’
By: Joshua Preiss See original post here. Universal basic income is an idea usually associated with the political left. However, it also has surprising support
By: Phoebe Stephens | Catherine Sweet | Hannah L. Harrison See original post here. For the roughly 11 million Canadians who qualify, it will provide
By: Jennifer Elias See original post here. Key points: Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said “every product of every company” will be impacted by the quick
By: Kofi Kenyatta See original post here. Arlyssa Heard struggles with crushing debt from student loans and a high-interest car payment. The single mom was
Businesswire: April 18, 2023 SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity (the “Fund”), a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering the understanding, acceptance, and implementation of Universal
A campaigner says she hopes a Universal Basic Income (UBI) Scheme could be “this generation’s version of the NHS”. By: Esme Ashcroft See original post
By: ANDREW V. KENNEDY See original post here. For the better part of the last 15 years, I’ve worked in what some might call the
When Stockton, California, resident Gregory Gauthier had to take time off from his job at auto dismantler Pick-n-Pull to recover from hernia surgery, he was
by ANDREW V. KENNEDY , ARTIST AND WRITER ON 4/4/23 AT 12:04 PM EDT Originally published: https://www.newsweek.com/ai-about-decimate-millions-jobs-its-time-universal-basic-income-opinion-1792501 For the better part of the last 15 years,
By: ASGHAR ADELZADEH See original post here. Daan Steenkamp, Hylton Hollander and Roy Havemann’s article criticising the recent IEJ-ADRS research on Basic Income Grant (BIG) pathway
See original post here. After six months of operation, a milestone has been reached in the landmark Basic Income for the Arts pilot scheme. Participants
See original post here. All of our kids should have the freedom to dream big and pursue their goals. Whether they’re Black, brown or white,
See original post here. A rise in violence on Toronto’s transit system signals an urgent need to better support people struggling with homelessness, mental illness
See original post here. Generative artificial intelligence systems could lead to “significant disruption” in the labor market and affect around 300 million full-time jobs globally,
See original post here. The Oregon legislature is considering a bill that supporters argue could set a path to statewide universal basic income. Senate Bill
See original post here. The last year has been a difficult one financially for 44-year-old Rocky Harper. Inflation, especially, has eaten into his paychecks that
See original post here. CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu is all set to make history by becoming the first state in India to offer a guaranteed monthly income
By: Ximena Conde See original post here. Nia Samuels’ second pregnancy came at a time of turmoil. Her partner got laid off, forcing the family
See original post here. Canadians have a long history of volunteering and giving back to the community — it’s woven into our cultural fabric. At
See original post here. The rate of eviction filings has returned to or exceeded pre-pandemic levels in many U.S. cities in recent months, amid the historically
By: Thomasi McDonald See original post here. Last February 2, the day before his 35th birthday, Torry Cooper had just gotten out of jail. He
See original post here. In the 10 or so days since its grand entrance, ChatGPT has been everywhere: littering Twitter feeds, cluttering promotional emails, igniting ethical debates
See original post here. The artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI on Tuesday launched the newest version of its language software, GPT-4, an advanced tool for
See original post here. There was a time when the concept of a universal basic income (UBI) was dismissed out of hand by most political and economic
See original post here. A “robot” lawyer powered by artificial intelligence was set to be the first of its kind to help a defendant fight
See original post here. The current system frequently leaves people feeling confused, anxious and angry, a charity claims. People with mental health problems are being
See original post here. This survey on various aspects of Basic Income among the population aged 16 and over living in Catalonia offers very interesting
See original post here. The Spring Budget will not deliver a universal basic income to support those struggling with soaring living costs, says Zack Polanski
See original post here. The idea of a European universal basic income bears potential as a palpable way of delivering on the promise of ‘social
See original post here. HAZEL GREEN, Ky. — As he claimed the first spot in a mile-long line for free food in the Appalachian foothills,
See original post here. The Catalan government’s ambitious €800/month universal basic income pilot program, which was initially supposed to begin in January and then sought approval as
By: Jonathan Williams See original post here. It is impossible for anyone to predict the precise series of events that will follow such a rise
By: Harini Calamur See original post here. ChatGPT has been in the news for the last few months. It is impossible to go on to
By: Rebecca Redelmeier Eudora Tucker long dreamed of owning her own fashion business, but ordinary expenses always stood in the way. Now she can both
See original post here. PORTLAND, Ore. — If passed a proposed bill in Oregon would introduce the first statewide Basic Universal Income pilot program by giving
By: Yogashen Pillay See original post here. Durban – Civil society groups have called for a permanent basic income grant for the unemployed following figures
By: Kyle Stokes See original post here. Since November 2020, the city of St. Paul has launched four separate pilot programs to study what happens
By: Jonathan Weisman See original post here. CHICAGO — Christopher Ellington’s South Side photography studio crashed in 2020 with the onset of the pandemic. By March
By: JEANNE KUANG See original post here. Before the pandemic, Claudia Gutierrez worked day shifts in one fast food drive-thru and night shifts in another,
By: Dean Mosiman | Wisconsin State Journal Mai Kaw Xiong struggles to make ends meet. With a limited ability to work due to a hit-and-run
By: Virginia Barreda See original post here. Interested in the chance to pocket an extra $500 each month for two years? Uplift – The Central Iowa Basic
See original post here. A privately-funded program to provide basic income to 100 California homeless people aims to study how the cash—plus one-on-one social support—can
See original post here. By: MAYA MILLER Thousands of homeless high school seniors would receive $1,000 a month for five months under a new bill
See original post here. Two of the largest counties in the US are leading a new coalition to advocate for programs that provide no-strings-attached cash payments
See original post here. Martin Wolf is right. Capitalism is delivering rampant inequality, leading democracy to generate populist demagogues appealing to economically excluded voters. Wolf’s
See original post here. By: HALAH AHMAD & STEPHEN NUÑEZ & HOPE WOLLENSACK Unconditional cash assistance is having a moment. Even before the pandemic, there was growing
