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, ...

"The question we don't really have a good answer to is, what would happen if we scaled these programs up on a larger level?" ...

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

Basic income pilot programs have distributed over $335 million in economic relief to Americans, according to a coalition of lawmakers.

A New Jersey lawmaker is proposing a nationwide pilot program for a guaranteed basic income. The 3-year experiment would give 10,000 Americans a monthly basic income. The payments would cover the ...

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Cook County just committed millions of public dollars to keep sending no-strings-attached cash to low income residents, turning what began as a pandemic experiment into a permanent feature of local ...

The nonprofit FHI 360 is headquartered at downtown Durham’s American Tobacco Campus. Families living in poverty often struggle to get by with the existing social safety net, so Durham County is trying ...

Students in the L.A. Community College District’s guaranteed basic income program have received the last of twelve monthly $1,000 payments. LAist spoke with some of these students to learn more about ...