The Cook County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved $7.5 million to make a guaranteed basic income pilot program ...

Sukhi Samra grew up with a mother who worked up to 80 hours per week to support three children and a husband with a disability. None of her three jobs paid her well enough to make ends meet in Fresno, ...

Participants in the cash transfer experiment will receive a $800 monthly no-strings-attached payment and an $8,000 lump sum.

New York City is one of many areas across the country offering guaranteed basic income to low-income residents.joSon/Getty Images Guaranteed basic income programs can help low-income participants ...

Just a few years ago, the idea of giving people money with no strings attached was seen as ludicrous in mainstream policy circles. This week, a documentary on so-called "guaranteed income" programs ...

Cook County approved $7.5 million to make its guaranteed basic income program permanent after a 2022 pilot that paid $500 a month to 3,250 households using federal COVID relief funds. This decision ...

Universal Basic Income programs have roots in the Black radical tradition, both the Black Panther Party and Martin Luther King Jr. called for a guaranteed income in the late 1960s. Universal Basic ...

Guaranteed income programs provide hundreds or thousands of dollars a month to participants. The programs became even more popular during the pandemic as it became clear how much direct checks help.

ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. — Walking outside on a cool, sunny day may seem like a typical day for most, but not in this case. “I committed a crime of selling drugs back in 2015,” said Calvin, who recently ...

When terms like "universal basic income" or "guaranteed basic income" are mentioned, folks generally raise an eyebrow, either out of curiosity or out of criticism. In either case, Alaska could be ...