Nation Dec 23 As communities test basic income programs, here’s how one California city fared By John Yang, Kaisha Young, Lana Green
Nation May 20 New Orleans hopes giving young people a guaranteed monthly income can break the cycle of poverty New Orleans has launched a first-of-its-kind program that provides monthly payments to teens as young as 16 years old. For the next 10 months, 125 participants ages 16 to 24 will get $350 a month with no strings attached as… By Roby Chavez
Economy Mar 05 Watch 6:48 A new program is giving some New York moms $1,000 a month New York City’s first guaranteed income program is providing up to $1,000 a month to some low-income mothers of newborns. The minds behind the program are hoping it will be beneficial for early childhood development. NewsHour Weekend’s Zachary Green reports… By Zachary Green
Economy Jan 09 Watch 6:54 In Mississippi, a long-running guaranteed income program is helping Black mothers In the U.S. 30% of families headed by Black mothers live below the poverty line. But one initiative in Mississippi is trying to address that problem with a guaranteed income program Magnolia Mother’s Trust is giving $1,000 a month to… By Zachary Green
Economy Mar 21 Watch 9:17 This guaranteed income experiment looks to reverse ‘history of judgement’ on people in poverty Many cities across the country are beginning to experiment with the idea of a guaranteed income: an amount of money meant to address the basic needs of a person living in the U.S., distributed on top of regular income. In… By Zachary Green
Mar 21 Watch 7:39 Stockton, California, gave residents a guaranteed income. Here’s what happened By PBS NewsHour What would happen if you gave people $500 a month, no strings attached? Stockton, California set out to answer that question two years ago as one of the first U.S. towns to pilot a Universal Basic Income program. Former Stockton… Continue watching
Jun 07 Why universal basic income isn’t going away any time soon By Paul Solman On June 5, the Swiss voted on a proposal for universal basic income. While the proposal was rejected, supporters claim that this is just the beginning of a transition as inevitable as the eight-hour-day once was. Continue reading
May 09 Ask yourself, says a notorious ‘Occupy’ academic, should your job exist? By David Graeber Increasingly, anthropologist and Occupy activist David Graeber argues, American workers are paid to look busy. The expansion of our days with meaningless work and the growth of entire industries that shouldn't exist, Graeber writes, fuel resentment toward "real" professions like… Continue reading
Apr 24 Why this ‘gender-crossing’ economist prefers ‘motherly libertarianism’ to government paternalism By Deirdre McCloskey Economist Deirdre McCloskey wants to be taxed to finance a minimum income, not a minimum wage. People couldn't persuasively beg with the former, she says, and the government would get out of the business of treating adults like children. Continue reading
Apr 18 How a basic income in the U.S. could increase global poverty By Megan McArdle Making a guaranteed income politically viable, Megan McArdle says, would require closing off U.S. borders to immigrants from lower-skilled countries. And that would increase global poverty more than a basic income would reduce U.S. poverty. Continue reading