Howard County’s new Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) pilot may be framed as compassionate policy, but it’s part of a troubling pattern that’s taking root across Maryland and the United States. Following ...
The chair of the Children’s Code Reform Task Force suggested New Mexico follow the example of the Alaska Permanent Fund, which sends every Alaska resident a yearly check based on the state’s oil and ...
Martin Luther King Jr. advocated for a guaranteed annual income in his 1967 book "Where Do We Go From Here?" ...
As Americans struggle with the high cost of living, an old idea is getting a fresh look. In dozens of pilot programs around the country, policymakers and researchers are exploring what happens when ...
Amid fears of mass AI-induced job losses, AI leaders are touting solutions like universal basic income. Here's what they're saying about UBI.
Free money makes people less likely to work. If common sense doesn’t convince you of that, a new study should. In July, a National Bureau of Economic Research paper looked at the effects of a ...