Last year, I wrote about the OpenResearch Unconditional Income Study (ORUS), an experiment in which lower-income Americans were given $1,000 a month for three years—a short-term test run of proposals ...

The idea of a universal basic income—a taxpayer-funded minimum monthly payment meant to reduce poverty and improve opportunity—is alluring. That’s especially true for low-income mothers of newborns.

Green councillors are calling for a universal basic income trial to be held in Bristol which would give free money to people ...

That’s what a select group of New Yorkers is receiving. GiveDirectly — a nonprofit focused on direct cash transfers to people ...

We should have these debates, of course. But we should also feel grateful that the stakes are as modest as they are. In Poor Relief: Why Giving People Money Is Not the Answer to Global Poverty, Heath ...

(MIRROR INDY) — Janet Lewis loves her job. Every day, she goes to work at Thomas Gregg Neighborhood School, where she’s an assistant teacher helping kids with disabilities learn life skills. But no ...

Guaranteed Basic Income has seen a big push in recent years. As the city of St. Louis releases today the results of its guaranteed basic income pilot program, your take on whether it succeeded will ...

The City of Newburgh is considering a one-year pilot program that would grant some residents a guaranteed basic income every month. A New York state grant already in the city’s possession would ...