The federal stimulus package that will provide relief checks to some families impacted by the pandemic, has reignited the idea of universal basic income. One testing ground for UBI is in Stockton ...

The idea then arises in semi-regular waves throughout the modern period, as Karl Widerquist, an advocate with campaign group Basic Income Earth Network, points out.

That idea never got traction, and today’s evenly divided U.S. Senate seems unlikely to surmount the predictable opposition of conservative politicians and voters.

Unlike countries blessed with vast sovereign wealth funds, think Norway’s oil reserves - South Africa lacks a national savings pool.

Then presidential candidate Andrew Yang speaks on Oct. 21, 2019 in Washington, DC. Yang's signature proposal of a universal basic income would give every American adult $1,000 a month. Mark Wilson ...

A Nature special.Although the basic idea of quantum physics dates back to the earliest years of the twentieth century, it wasn’t until 1925, on the German island of Heligoland, that Werner ...

Such measures have, again, led the world to talk about the idea of an unconditional or universal basic income, otherwise known as UBI, an idea that Thomas Moore put forward in his novel Utopia in ...

The idea of a more permanent UBI has been growing among the general public, especially among the younger population. In September of last year, a Hill-HarrisX poll found that 49% of Americans ...

In Germany, millions of people applied to join a study of universal basic income that will provide participants with €1,200 ($1,423) a month, while in the United Kingdom, more than 100 lawmakers ...