Chicago residents will be able to apply to participate in the city’s $500-per-month basic income pilot program in April, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Thursday. The City Council passed a $31.5 ...

More than 100 Durham residents received $600 this month as part of the city's guaranteed basic income program. The program aims to put cash in people's pockets for the next year. People are using the ...

Buck and Gracie Close aren't shy about their family history. The siblings, both in their 70s, are the descendants of slave owners who operated lucrative cotton mills in South Carolina. One of their ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. A basic income program in rural Romania has helped disadvantaged children build successful careers, ...

Halfway through 2021, Sherika had to leave her job as a home health aide. It was a great job, she wrote in a first-person account for Ms. Magazine, and she loved her patients, but she recently had a ...

Anne Bacon, CEO of the nonprofit IMPACT Community Partnership, said she's figured out why people experience financial problems — and the reason is much simpler than others might think. "Addition and ...

Participants have been selected for a pilot program that will provide basic income support to low-income residents in central Iowa. Starting May 15, 110 people in Polk, Dallas and Warren counties will ...

(BCN) — A pilot program to provide guaranteed basic income to 100 Santa Clara County residents who have been incarcerated or were otherwise under supervision by the justice system took another step ...

Fueled by funds from the American Rescue Plan Act, governments across the country are trying out “basic income” programs that send cash to low-income families, with no restrictions on how the money is ...

Los Angeles County's guaranteed basic income program is underway, with 1,000 residents now receiving $1,000 a month for the next three years, officials said. LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- Los Angeles County's ...