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Europes first national experiment in giving citizens free cash has attracted huge media attention. But one year in, what does this project really hope to prove?

Sam Altman has been nothing if not vocal about his belief in universal basic income (UBI). President of Silicon Valley's most prestigious startup accelerator, Y Combinator, Altman has led the charge in recent years to determine the feasibility of UBI.

Stockton, Calif., went bankrupt four years ago. Now Mayor Michael Tubbs wants to test a form of universal basic income.

Start-up accelerator Y Combinator plans to roll out its initial cash handout trial to thousands of people across two U.S. states.

Editorial: Hillary Clinton should have thrown caution to the wind and backed yearly payments to US citizens. These couldve been dividends from a fund financed by levying duties on tech giants that profit from a collective loss of privacy

Scotland may adopt a universal basic income scheme that would guarantee a cash payment of up to 150 a week to its citizens for the rest of their lives, Nicola Sturgeonhas said. The First Minister said she would fund research into the proposal that would i

ALMOST half of all Brits back plans to give every UK citizen a cash handout regardless of employment, according to a new study. The Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a proposed blanket handout paid to all regardless of their age or whether they were in or o

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Universal basic income is becoming increasingly popular as a potential solution to the social problems caused by poverty and rising inequality - and to the twin threats of globalisation and automation.

Despite the current focus on the concept, it actually isn't particularly new. In fact, former US President Richard Nixon actually floated the idea back in 1969.

Having a monthly, tax-free, no-strings-attached income that would cover the basics for life may sound too good to be true, but it's no fantasy. The idea of universal basic income (UBI) already has been implemented in some regions, such as Canada, Euro

Finland has been giving 2,000 of its citizens an unconditional income for the last five months and some are already seeing the benefits, reporting decreased stress, greater incentives to find work and more time to pursue business ideas.

Michael D. Tanner Looking for the next big political idea? How about this: Lets scrap our entire social welfare system, including all of our anti-poverty programs, unemployment insurance, Medicare and even Social Security. In its place, just send every A

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made his first public endorsement of universal basic income, a system in which all people receive checks just for being alive.

Historian and author Rutger Bregman gave a TED talk on the importance of helping people by giving them cash, no questions asked.

Platforms like eBay, Uber, Airbnb, and Freelancer are thriving, growing the digital economy and disrupting existing business. But the question arising now is how to ensure that the transformations they entail have a positive impact on society.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's province of Ontario said on Monday it will offer a basic wage to those who are out of work or have low incomes, the latest region to experiment with providing a guaranteed income

Countries around the world, from Finland to Namibia to the Netherlands and Kenya, are trying something so simple that it just might work: Handing out cash, no strings attached, to its citizens. Theyre all testing out versions of universal basic income. An

A proposed provincial pilot project to give some people struggling on poverty-level welfare payments and low-wage jobs a basic income with no strings attached, received a thumbs-up during recent online and public consultations.Ontarians are also keen to k

It is a utopian idea, literally, but is enjoying a renaissance as politicians and policy wonks grapple with technology-driven changes that could redefine our very understanding of work. If robots and machine intelligence threaten to render many white-collar jobs obsolete, then what will people do