In its nearly two decades of operation, GiveDirectly, the direct cash payment charity started by MIT and Harvard graduate students, has delivered more than $800 million to more than 1.6 million people ...

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 ...

In 1967–68, amid the national college debate topic, versions of the idea reached the Oval Office in the Nixon era, then ebbed ...

Each year on the holiday that bears his name, Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered for his immense contributions to the ...

Some politicians and activists are eager to give you "free" money. They call it universal basic income (UBI)—cash for everyone, no strings attached. Comedian Dave Chappelle thinks UBI would "save my ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk sees a potential future where AI has eliminated poverty.

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.

We should have these debates, of course. But we should also feel grateful that the stakes are as modest as they are. In Poor Relief: Why Giving People Money Is Not the Answer to Global Poverty, Heath ...

Dec. 9—For people who may not be fully familiar with the idea, what is basic income, or universal basic income? A key thing to know in advance before I give you the definition is that what we've been ...