The policy of providing guaranteed cash incomes has gained momentum in recent years. This tool to tackle inequality has the ...

Universal basic income (UBI) provides regular payments to all individuals in a community, regardless of their employment status or financial need. The idea is that when everyone has enough money to ...

Elon Musk has turned Zohran Mamdani's sweeping affordability agenda into a national flashpoint, warning that the New York mayor-elect's plans would crush living standards and saddle the United States ...

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 ...

"The question we don't really have a good answer to is, what would happen if we scaled these programs up on a larger level?" ...

Elon Musk has started talking less about universal basic income and more about what he calls "universal high income," a future in which he says there will be "no poverty" and little reason to save ...

Last year, I wrote about the OpenResearch Unconditional Income Study (ORUS), an experiment in which lower-income Americans were given $1,000 a month for three years—a short-term test run of proposals ...

In 1967–68, amid the national college debate topic, versions of the idea reached the Oval Office in the Nixon era, then ebbed ...

What happens when robots take everyone's jobs? It's the question hanging over office chatter, think pieces, and late-night doomscrolling. People are scrambling to find "AI-proof" careers, but with ...

The Marshall Islands’ new universal basic income program rests on Compact funding from the United States, blurring the line ...