University of York Researchers at the University of York played a key role in a major new study which suggests that Universal Basic Income could help to reverse the epidemic…
Gizmodo Illinois’ Cook County, which includes Chicago, has opened up applications for one of the largest guaranteed basic income pilots in the U.S. to date. Starting this week, Cook County residents…
Bloomberg In more than 20 US cities that launched basic income programs during the pandemic, the average person receiving monthly support was a woman making just enough money to put her over the…
VOCM The provincial minister of Children, Seniors, and Social Development believes a guaranteed basic income will be achieved with incremental steps over time. John Abbott spoke during a virtual event…
Canadians are at the breaking point. There is a solution! Inflation, economic uncertainty and growing levels of poverty and inequality are taking a toll that Canada has the capacity to…
By Sid Frankel, University of Manitoba On September 22 the Canadian Centre on Policy Alternatives released Alternative Federal Budget 2023: Rising to the Challenge: An Agenda for Public Leadership. Its…
The Hollywood Reporter In one of her first meetings with the villagers of Kogutu, Caroline Teti, an employee of the fast-growing nonprofit GiveDirectly, tells them, “I know you’ve had a…
City News An Ottawa group is advocating for a basic, livable income for those living below the poverty line. Joe Foster, who is involved in the Basic Income Ottawa group, told The…
Deadline In rural Kenya, $22 a month can go a long, long way. We’re talking a life-changing sum of money. That figure is, in fact, the amount calculated by the…
New York Times Early in the pandemic, Alondra Barajas had a temporary job for the Census Bureau, doing phone work from the two-bedroom apartment she shared with her mother and…