Harris County’s program, spearheaded by Precinct 1 Commissioner Rodney Ellis, will serve 1,928 low-income families living 200% below the poverty level, with a price tag of $20.5 million in ...

Mayor Eric Garcetti included a $24-million Basic Income Guaranteed program in his city budget to be released Tuesday. L.A. would become the biggest city to try the concept, possibly joining ...

It's called G.I.F.T — Guaranteed Income For Transgender people — and will join a slate of other basic income programs that The City offers.

Data from studies in the U.S. in the late 1960s and early 1970s show that guaranteed income programs caused a clear reduction in labor-force participation.

More than half of U.S. adults opposed a universal basic income of about $1,000 a month for adults when surveyed by Pew Research Center in 2020, and the greatest opposition was among white adults.

If you want a working example of universal basic income, look no further than Alaska. The Alaska Permanent Fund provides every resident with no-strings-attached money using the state’s oil revenues.

The Denver Basic Income Project just got an extension and more funding. The project offers up to $1,000 a month to Denver's poorest residents. The project said it's provided $6.5 million to ...

The city of Shreveport, Louisiana, recently began accepting applications for a universal basic income program that will select 110 families to receive $660 a month for a year, according to KTBS ...

Ireland's basic income pilot program for artists ends in August. For three years, 2,000 artists and creative workers received about $370 a week.