New York City is one of many areas across the country offering guaranteed basic income to low-income residents.joSon/Getty Images Guaranteed basic income programs can help low-income participants ...

Kenya's universal basic income program, which will continue through 2030, is offering no-strings cash to 20,000 participants in 200 rural villages.

A landmark study from OpenResearch provides more data on the benefits of universal basic income, the OpenAI founder’s favored solution for a future in which AI takes everyone's jobs. For the past ...

Universal basic income (UBI) was once considered fringe and politically unpopular – the idea that everyone in society would get an unconditional source of money, which they could then use however they ...

Albuquerque is now funding a basic income project with its tax on recreational cannabis. The program targets vulnerable communities, providing $750 monthly payments to families. "This isn't just about ...

L.A. Community College District launched a guaranteed basic income program in 2024. LAist checked in to see how students are ...

Standing is a professorial research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and a co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network, an international NGO that ...

Universal Basic Income vs. Guaranteed Minimum Income: What you need to know about cash transfer programs. Credit: ViCKY Leta / Mashable Give a Buck is Mashable's deep dive into Universal Basic Income ...

There’s a thesis emerging that amid the terrible pandemic challenges, people are more receptive to a wider range of policy options now than they were at the start of the year. Mauro Guillén, a ...

Last June, Spain rolled out possibly the world’s largest basic income program across the entire country. The minimum subsistence income aimed to provide support for Spain’s poorest families via ...

A basic income—a regular, unconditional payment distributed by the government—is an old idea. Thomas More wrote about it during the Renaissance in Utopia, and Thomas Paine preached its merits when the ...

Politicians and economists waver on whether a basic income can effectively address the world’s most pressing problems. The hotly debated topic isn’t a discussion of right or left, but one fixated on ...