Business Insider

A guaranteed basic income program in Minneapolis found that even after a year of giving recipients $500 a month, they weren't working any less

The city of Minneapolis is experimenting with a guaranteed basic income program, and the preliminary results are promising. Minneapolis has provided $500 monthly payments with no strings attached to ...
Reason

San Francisco Will Pay Artists $1,000 a Month in Universal Basic Income

San Francisco will become the latest city to experiment with a universal basic income (UBI). Sort of. In an effort to assist the city's struggling arts community in bouncing back from the pandemic, ...
Business Insider

Arizona Republicans call basic income payments 'unearned,' introduce a bill to ban them

Republican lawmakers in Arizona are joining a chorus of conservatives across the country trying to ban basic income programs, which offer residents no-strings-attached payments. Arizona state ...
KETV Omaha

Metropolitan Community College's Adult Basic Education Program funding at risk

COMMUNITY DO NOT HAVE A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA. EVERY YEAR, METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE HELPS THOUSANDS OF THEM GET THEIR GED IN THE ADULT BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAM IS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH GRANTS AND ...
CNN

Job guarantees and free money: ‘Utopian’ ideas tested in Europe as the pandemic gives governments a new role

Christine Jardine, a Scottish politician who represents Edinburgh in the UK parliament, was not a fan of universal basic income before the pandemic hit. “It was regarded in some quarters as a kind of ...