Halfway through 2021, Sherika had to leave her job as a home health aide. It was a great job, she wrote in a first-person account for Ms. Magazine, and she loved her patients, but she recently had a ...

As Americans struggle with the high cost of living, an old idea is getting a fresh look. In dozens of pilot programs around the country, policymakers and researchers are exploring what happens when ...

Elon Musk is working on a "friendly" robot that can perform "dangerous, repetitive, and boring tasks" — and take jobs away from humans.

At least 20 guaranteed income pilots have launched in cities and counties across the U.S. since 2018, and more than 5,400 families and individuals have started receiving between $300 and $1,000 a ...

Eat your heart out, MrBeast. Mark Donovan doesn’t know where he got the idea to start handing out $1,000 to people in need, only that he was doing it before it became cool. “I love the immediacy of it ...

Ulster County residents in upstate New York making less than $46,900 annually were randomly selected to receive $500 per month for a year.

A homeless man sweeps up around a sidewalk encampment on Deering Avenue on Monday Credit: (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) The solution to L.A.’s homeless epidemic may lie in ...

When terms like "universal basic income" or "guaranteed basic income" are mentioned, folks generally raise an eyebrow, either out of curiosity or out of criticism. In either case, Alaska could be ...

Despite support from the public and elected officials, the Denver Basic Income Project will halt its experiment of giving low-income and homeless residents free monthly cash payments for the upcoming ...

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Kristen Lowitt receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Charles Z. Levkoe receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of ...