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

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

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 ...

Full results of Finland's universal basic income trial are due in 2020, but preliminary results show that it did not lead to gains in employment. It did, however, improve beneficiaries' health and ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Since the early 1980s, Alaska has sent checks to residents every October, generally for around $1,000 or $2,000. In 2020, they were for more than $3,000. A typical household could get up to $10,000.