As America's cities look to alleviate poverty, universal basic income has been proposed by local leaders as a complement to existing welfare. With a housing-affordability crisis and high ...

From Founding Fathers to modern tech leaders, the idea of universal basic income has a long history. In fact, UBI has been ...

Everywhere you look, it seems, people are talking about a Universal Basic Income (UBI)—a monthly cash benefit paid to every citizen that would replace the existing means-tested welfare system.

The argument about a universal basic income (UBI) versus a job guarantee (JG) has become one of the liveliest and most contentious debates on the Left. Each has been touted as a solution to all ...

an amount of money meant to address the basic needs of a person living in the U.S., distributed on top of regular income. In… ...

Universal basic income (UBI) provides regular payments to all individuals in a community, regardless of their employment status or financial need. The idea is that when everyone has enough money ...

During a campaign stop in Fredericton, Liberal leadership candidate Karina Gould promised to establish a universal basic income within one year if she becomes prime minister. There’s a reason ...

Some tech leaders are advocating for universal basic income to counteract AI-driven job automation. High-profile Silicon Valley figures such as Elon Musk and Sam Altman have long supported the idea.

Yet what works in Kenya does not necessarily work in Kansas — and GiveDirectly has become enmeshed in debates about universal basic income, the no-strings-attached cash payments intended to even the U ...

Depending on whom you ask, providing all Americans with a guaranteed universal basic income could erase inequality and spur entrepreneurship or it could be a recipe for economic disaster.