As the cost of living continues to climb in households right across Prince Edward Island, there have been renewed calls for governments to implement basic income guarantee programs. Earlier this year, ...

BOSTON - Will Boston try a new approach to tackling poverty? The Boston City Council this week held a hearing to consider a guaranteed basic income program for its poorest residents. City Councilor ...

Basic income was life-changing for Jessica Topfer. The Cannington, Ont. resident was a student at Trent University in 2017 when then-premier Kathleen Wynne's government launched the largest basic ...

A DC basic income program lets participants choose their monthly payment amounts, no-strings-attached. The CashRx pilot by Bread for the City aims to improve health outcomes for low-income residents.

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Buck and Gracie Close are funding a basic income program for victims of unjust policing. They view the program as a form of reparations for their family's history as slave owners. The program, ...

If you were living paycheck to paycheck, what could you do with extra cash that came with no conditions attached? A 2020 study from the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University found ...