New York City expands guaranteed income efforts with a pilot program for young people experiencing homelessness.

That’s what a select group of New Yorkers is receiving. GiveDirectly — a nonprofit focused on direct cash transfers to people ...

The program is one of the last pieces of the effort to reduce the city’s racial wealth gap and improve financial empowerment ...

Participants in the program were shown to have better financial stability, planning, and lower levels of stress related to ...

Why it matters: The program, known as BOOST (short for Building Outstanding Opportunities for Students to Thrive ), was ...

L.A. Community College District launched a guaranteed basic income program in 2024. LAist checked in to see how students are ...

THE CITY COUNCIL has launched a new guaranteed income program for young, homeless New Yorkers, allocating $1.5 million in the FY2026 budget.

After listening to St. Louis Public Radio's recent reporting on the lawsuit challenging St. Louis’ guaranteed basic income pilot, I think the conversation needs to be more grounded in how people ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The city of Rochester announced that its Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) program, which provided families with $500 a month for a year, was successful. The Wilson Sheehan Lab for ...

Classic economic theory assumes low-income people would stop working if governments gave them money as a strategy to reduce poverty. New research co-authored by a Cornell expert in industrial ...

In the early stages of motherhood, Tatiana Marie would often lay awake at night, plagued by a continuous cycle of piercing and exhausting thoughts (for privacy, we’re not using Tatiana’s last name).

In Howard County, we are committed to building a future where all families can become self-sufficient and achieve economic mobility. We make historic investments in education at every stage of life, ...