Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Americans struggle with the high cost of living, an old idea is getting a fresh look. In dozens of pilot programs around the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 9—For people who may not be fully familiar with the idea, what is basic income, or universal basic income? A key thing to ...

As Americans grapple with persistent inflation and the looming threat of job displacement from artificial intelligence, an old idea is gaining new momentum: Universal Basic Income (UBI). The concept ...

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 ...

Nearly a year-and-a-half after the city’s guaranteed basic income pilot program ended, some Los Angeles city councilmembers say they now have proof the program works – and they want to revive it so ...

Despite support from the public and elected officials, the Denver Basic Income Project will halt its experiment of giving low-income and homeless residents free monthly cash payments for the upcoming ...

The idea of guaranteed income programs has been around for decades, but it wasn’t until one of the country’s first guaranteed income programs launched in Stockton in 2019 that the idea began gaining ...

Hundreds of homeless residents have moved off the streets and into stable housing after receiving no-strings-attached monthly salaries of up to $1,000, according to the Denver Basic Income Project.

A woman and her baby head to West Oakland on a BART train. A thousand residents of West Oakland will be receiving prepaid debit cards with $320 on them for use on public transit. (Liz Hafalia / Getty ...

After a 2021 pilot program showed potential benefits of “universal basic mobility” in Oakland, the city has doubled down on incentives for public transit. A thousand residents of West Oakland will be ...