Basic income programs are gaining momentum nationwide as local governments and nonprofits test this bold alternative to traditional welfare.

As inequality grows and automation threatens employment, many nations are providing citizens with unconditional payments.

Figures including Sam Altman think a form of universal basic income, or UBI, could be a solution if artificial intelligence ...

Universal Basic Income programs have roots in the Black radical tradition, both the Black Panther Party and Martin Luther King Jr. called for a guaranteed income in the late 1960s.

“Universal basic income” was one of the first concepts probed by OpenResearch, a moonshots lab linked to OpenAI that Altman has personally contributed tens of millions of dollars to in a ...

This basic income program will give $1,000 a month to black mothers Magnolia Mother’s Trust will begin as a pilot program in Jackson, Mississippi, with 15 women, and aims to lift black mothers ...

They recently studied a basic income program in the nation’s capital called THRIVE East of the River, involving nearly 600 low-income families and individuals during the pandemic.

Universal basic income pilot programs are popping up all across the U.S. But rarely do we get to follow a family and see the impacts these small amounts of cash can have on the recipients.

Longtime basic-income advocate Guy Standing, a professor of economics at SOAS University of London, and author of several books on basic income, is advising the pilot’s design, implementation ...

Basic income's lack of conditions entirely eliminates all type II errors. Instead the worst thing that happens is that people who we don't see as needing assistance get assistance, otherwise known ...

Basic income should be implemented because we are all better off with a middle class; because in a rich country, no one should be homeless or hungry; and because the 20th century idea that humans ...

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