Last week, Newark, N.J., Mayor Ras Baraka announced his intent to pursue a universal basic income program for his city’s residents. He’ll launch a pilot program to test the idea. The idea of giving ...

A majority of voters believe the government should have a universal basic income program, up from 12 percentage points in 2019, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds. Fifty-five percent of registered voters ...

Republican lawmakers in Arizona have introduced a bill to ban guaranteed basic income programs. The bill would ban any county or municipality from offering "unearned" payments to residents.

LA advanced a proposal for a new basic income program targeting domestic abuse survivors. It's inspired by the results of the city's BIG:LEAP program, a large-scale basic income pilot. BIG:LEAP found ...

Basic income pilot programs are proliferating throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The goal is to empower poor families with unconditional cash grants. But there's a catch: You aren't eligible if ...

In this Wednesday Aug. 14, 2019, file photo Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs talks during an interview in Stockton, Calif. Mayors across the country are committing to give cash to low-income families with ...

Nearly a year-and-a-half after the city’s guaranteed basic income pilot program ended, some Los Angeles city councilmembers say they now have proof the program works – and they want to revive it so ...

Ontario is canceling its basic income pilot program two years earlier than planned. The Canadian province is a year into an experiment that gives 4,000 low-income participants an annual stipend, as ...

Los Angeles County could soon become the largest county in the country to launch a universal basic income pilot program, providing at least $1,000 a month to at least 1,000 residents. Supervisors ...

The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has completed the world’s first on-chain disbursement of universal basic income (UBI) using a digitally native sovereign bond, USDM1, via the Stellar ...