ABC News A major cause of homelessness for many is the loss of income. Could a way out be providing the unhoused with monthly basic income? A USC study shows…
Business Insider 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…
Brunswickan Canada is struggling when it comes to the subject of financial success for the citizens. In 2021, bills S-233 and C-223 were introduced in Parliament, recently passing their second…
Vancouver Island Free Daily Nanaimo-Ladysmith’s MP and her colleagues are talking to Canadians about the development of a national framework for a guaranteed livable income. MP Lisa Marie Barron and…
BIEN In 1942, as people started to think about remaking society after the War, William Beveridge wrote a report for the British government that was to shape the welfare state…
Houston Chronicle On a warm October evening 56 years ago, some 4,000 people gathered at Sam Houston Coliseum on Bagby Street to hear what would be Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s…
Substack It’s midnight. Some combination of insomnia, restlessness, or nocturnalism has kept you in front of your television watching reruns or, worse, the news. As a commercial break ensues, the…
Business Insider Yet another study shows that poor people didn't squander their money on drugs and alcohol when given cash assistance. People experiencing homelessness in Vancouver spent 99 fewer days unhoused and…
Niagara Independent As many white-collar Canadians return to work today, the friendly question of “how were your holidays?” will be asked by co-workers across the country. A friendly ice breaker…
Irish Examiner Serge Vanden Berghe sits in his Cork city studio, surrounded by paints, brushes, many completed artworks and yet more half-finished. He opens his journal: in it, he records…