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 ...
The city of Los Angeles has begun accepting applications for its misguided Basic Income Guaranteed program. The program promises $1,000 per month to 3,000 poor families. The cash payments come with ...
The Finnish government reportedly announced Tuesday that it will end the country’s universal basic income program by year's end -- and appears to be taking on new measures to cut benefits to those who ...
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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 ...
(BCN) — A pilot program to provide guaranteed basic income to 100 Santa Clara County residents who have been incarcerated or were otherwise under supervision by the justice system took another step ...
A basic income program in rural Romania has helped children succeed — and even become Olympians. The kids spent the money on food, clothes, textbooks, therapy, and sports gear. Researchers reported ...
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 ...
Over a year after the city of Chelsea gave 2,000 families $400 a month between 2020 and 2021, much of which was spent on groceries, city officials are planning a second round of payments beginning in ...
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