There’s a reason that ideas from the progressive ivory tower need to be tested. Often, the grandest theories fall apart when exposed to the rigors of the real world. Consider the case of universal ...

Last year, I wrote about the OpenResearch Unconditional Income Study (ORUS), an experiment in which lower-income Americans were given $1,000 a month for three years—a short-term test run of proposals ...

New York is running one of the country's most unusual anti-poverty experiments, quietly dropping a $12,000 digital asset into ...

As concerns grow over AI surpassing human abilities within two to three years. Polly Dunbar explores whether universal basic ...

The initial promise and actual early results of artificial intelligence (AI) taking over some workplaces suggest the tech will likely to among the most transformative innovations since the Industrial ...

As global wealth inequality deepens and automation threatens to usher in a new form of technology-driven unemployment, many nations, from the wealthy and industrialized to the still-developing, are ...

The idea of a universal basic income—a taxpayer-funded minimum monthly payment meant to reduce poverty and improve opportunity—is alluring. That’s especially true for low-income mothers of newborns.

There’s a reason that ideas from the progressive ivory tower need to be tested. Often, the grandest theories fall apart when exposed to the rigors of the real world. Consider the case of universal ...

In recent years, several countries, and more than a few municipalities in the United States, have experimented with universal basic income (UBI) under the assumption that unconditionally sending ...

The concept of universal basic income has a long history. Figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Richard Nixon supported versions of UBI. Now, the US and other countries have experimented with active ...

There’s a reason that ideas from the progressive ivory tower need to be tested. Often, the grandest theories fall apart when exposed to the rigors of the real world. Consider the case of universal ...