The second-largest county in the United States has established a permanent guaranteed basic income program after the success of a previous pilot version. The Cook County Board of Commissioners ...

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In May, Delta Air Lines announced a rebranding of its fares. Basic Economy became Delta Main Basic, the old Main Cabin was retitled Delta Main Classic, the former Comfort+ morphed into Delta Comfort, ...

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Dr. Berg teaches philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. Last spring, it became clear to me that over half the students in my large general education lecture course had used artificial ...

Should a country financially support its artists? That’s the question that Ireland sought to answer with a pilot program that ran between 2022 and 2025, during which the government provided 2,000 ...

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Matthew Alvarado sells cannabis by the book now, but he sold pot illegally and paid the price. He was incarcerated multiple times, and says the Cannabis Reentry Employment Assistance and Training ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...