Last month, The New York Times profiled an AI startup called Mechanize, Inc., whose founders were brutally honest about its goals: to automate the entire workforce within the next 30 years. But one of ...

Advocates for basic income say the backlash is being fueled by a conservative think tank. National. After a boom in cash aid to tackle poverty, some states are now banning it.

Mein Grundeinkommen (My Basic Income), the Berlin-based non-profit that ran the German study, followed 122 people for three years.From June 2021 to May 2024, this group received an unconditional ...

Mein Grundeinkommen (My Basic Income), the Berlin-based non-profit that ran the German study, followed 122 people for three years.From June 2021 to May 2024, this group received an unconditional ...

Yet the arguments for some kind of basic income are strong, no matter what happens with AI. There could be absolutely no further progress, AI could come to a complete and eternal standstill, and ...

Universal basic income is recurring cash payments for participants, no strings attached. Traditional welfare restricts spending to specific categories, like healthcare or groceries.

The most expansive vision has been a universal basic income, as when 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang called for giving every U.S. adult $1,000 a month (plus cost-of-living increases ...

Universal basic income is a system in which the government provides every adult citizen with a set amount of money on a regular basis, regardless of their need or desire to work.

In recent years the Stanford Basic Income Lab and the Center for Guaranteed Income Research have been tracking 30-plus pilot programs that have tested basic income in towns and cities across the U.S.

Basic income pilots have become extremely popular in recent years. By one count, there have been as many as 120 pilots in the U.S. since 2017. In general, these programs, ...

What “Universal Basic Guys” gets wrong about basic income – and why it matters The animated show’s depiction of the potential in providing basic income couldn’t be further from the truth ...

The department's target for the current financial year is to table the Basic Income Support policy to Cabinet for approval.