The Texas Senate passed a bill Thursday that would ban guaranteed income programs - a move that the bill's author said was in response to Uplift Harris, a county program that would have provided ...

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

"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?" ...

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

There has been a lot of talk about “universal basic income” recently, especially during the pandemic. It’s the concept of giving money to people, no strings attached. We've seen pilot programs around ...

We should have these debates, of course. But we should also feel grateful that the stakes are as modest as they are. In Poor Relief: Why Giving People Money Is Not the Answer to Global Poverty, Heath ...

It’s a straightforward thought, and, at first glance, it seems reasonable: replace Social Security with a universal basic income (UBI). It not only could help lower-income retirees live more ...