Discover how Universal Basic Income (UBI) aims to reduce poverty and adapt to automation by providing regular, unconditional ...

The pilot program, restricted to low-income people only, replaced their unemployment, pension and disability benefits with a generous basic income. The government cited excessive costs as the ...

New documentary explores impact of universal basic income programs Just a few years ago, the idea of giving people money with no strings attached was seen as ludicrous in mainstream policy circles ...

Magnolia Mother's Trust will begin as a pilot program in Jackson, Mississippi, with 15 women, and aims to lift black mothers out of poverty.

Basic income programs have grown in popularity in recent years, spurred by a housing affordability crisis, a rising number of homeless people, fallout from the pandemic, and worries that AI will ...

Oregon's proposed UBI program would be a first-of-its-kind initiative, granting every state resident about $750 a year, according to The Oregonian. To fund the program, a 3% tax on corporations ...

What kind of impact can guaranteed basic income programs have? In California, the city of Stockton gave $500 per month to 125 residents with a median income of $46,000 a year.

More recently, a pilot program in King County did the exact same thing. In such experiments, one outcome has been counterintuitive to critics of basic income programs: people generally worked more.