Nearly six decades ago, Martin Luther King Jr. advocated for a form of basic income not unlike what AI leaders today suggest ...

"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?" ...

Racial prejudice continues to fuel opposition to universal basic income, as well as other forms of social welfare.

Lawyers and lawmakers want to block basic income programs in Texas, California, and elsewhere. Many of them argue the programs are discriminatory because they are not universal. Legal challenges by ...

Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. The government of the Marshall Islands has launched the world’s first national universal basic ...

Georgia's success in its Universal Basic Income program for Black women is contributing to a national push for its expansion. Georgia’s installment of a universal basic income (UBI) program has found ...

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

With technological advances eliminating jobs, and economies struggling to keep up with inflation, many leaders, such as former Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang, have called for a universal ...

The Perfect Storm Hitting Generation X Almost 900,000 private sector employees have already lost their jobs and another 300,000 federal government employees are out of work by the end of 2025, ...

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