In October 1936, 200 men marched from South Tyneside to London to protest against the poverty and unemployment in their town, Jarrow. Nearly a century later, Jarrow is taking part in a small pilot ...

Canada does not have a national universal basic income (UBI), but the financial impacts of COVID-19 have renewed interest in the possible benefits of a UBI program. Many or all of the products on this ...

Just a few years ago, the idea of giving people money with no strings attached was seen as ludicrous in mainstream policy circles. This week, a documentary on so-called "guaranteed income" programs ...

The titans of AI say they're coming for your job, but UBI will solve everything. Do they have a point? Reading time 12 minutes Three years ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published an essay dubbed “Moore’s ...

Howard County’s new Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) pilot may be framed as compassionate policy, but it’s part of a troubling pattern that’s taking root across Maryland and the United States. Following ...

If you were living paycheck to paycheck, what could you do with extra cash that came with no conditions attached? A 2020 study from the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University found ...

Free money makes people less likely to work. If common sense doesn’t convince you of that, a new study should. In July, a National Bureau of Economic Research paper looked at the effects of a ...

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 ...

In the spring of 2022, Tydricka Lewis finally bought a car that started every time she asked it to and no longer left her stranded. Her 2020 Nissan Rogue was essential to her new job as a peer-support ...

The Irish government is implementing a pioneering scheme that will give 2,000 artists a basic income for three years, ...

Guaranteed basic income has moved from a fringe idea to a serious policy consideration faster than most Canadians realize. CERB’s rapid deployment during the pandemic proved that direct cash transfers ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down businesses and sent workers home, the government stepped in with stimulus payments that were intended to keep families afloat financially during an unprecedented ...