Business Insider

A guaranteed basic income program in Minneapolis found that even after a year of giving recipients $500 a month, they weren't working any less

The city of Minneapolis is experimenting with a guaranteed basic income program, and the preliminary results are promising. Minneapolis has provided $500 monthly payments with no strings attached to ...
Business Insider

Arizona Republicans call basic income payments 'unearned,' introduce a bill to ban them

Republican lawmakers in Arizona are joining a chorus of conservatives across the country trying to ban basic income programs, which offer residents no-strings-attached payments. Arizona state ...
The Atlantic

Stockton’s Basic-Income Experiment Pays Off

Two years ago, the city of Stockton, California, did something remarkable: It brought back welfare. Using donated funds, the industrial city on the edge of the Bay Area tech economy launched a small ...
CNN

Job guarantees and free money: ‘Utopian’ ideas tested in Europe as the pandemic gives governments a new role

Christine Jardine, a Scottish politician who represents Edinburgh in the UK parliament, was not a fan of universal basic income before the pandemic hit. “It was regarded in some quarters as a kind of ...
The Conversation

The cancellation of Ontario’s basic income project is a tragedy

The cancellation of Ontario’s basic income project not only violates our obligation as a society to ensure economic security for all. It also breaches the ethical obligations we have to those ...