As inequality grows and automation threatens employment, many nations are providing citizens with unconditional payments.

Basic income programs are gaining momentum nationwide as local governments and nonprofits test this bold alternative to traditional welfare.

Figures including Sam Altman think a form of universal basic income, or UBI, could be a solution if artificial intelligence ...

Universal Basic Income is one of the most prominent social innovations of the 21st century. It could reshape society and usher in a new era of personal freedom and empowerment.

Negative income tax trials were conducted in Seattle and New Jersey starting in the 1960s. In recent years, countries such as Iran, Kenya and Finland have rolled out basic-income programs.

Basic income should be implemented because we are all better off with a middle class; because in a rich country, no one should be homeless or hungry; and because the 20th century idea that humans ...

A basic income—a regular, unconditional payment distributed by the government—is an old idea. Thomas More wrote about it during the Renaissance in Utopia, and Thomas Paine preached its merits when the ...

We should consider basic income from the perspective of what it would do for individuals and society. Let’s start by admitting social policy is in crisis — not unlike the mess it was in during ...

“Only basic income that goes to children, as well as adults, can actually eliminate the poverty of families with only a single parent, or a single earner,” Zelleke argues.

Basic income is a government payment to a person or family to provide a minimum income. It has never been implemented by any nation, but pilot programs are now underway or planned in Finland ...

Basic income's lack of conditions entirely eliminates all type II errors. Instead the worst thing that happens is that people who we don't see as needing assistance get assistance, otherwise known ...

Basic income pilot programs are proliferating throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The goal is to empower poor families with unconditional cash grants. But there's a catch: You aren't eligible ...