Universal Basic Income

A California city voted to give some “transgender” and “non-binary” residents a guaranteed income of up to $900 a month for two years.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) wants to test a basic universal income-style program by paying $500 a month to 5,000 low-income families, the Associated Press reported.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is set to propose a “universal basic income” pilot program for some residents of his city when he unveils his new budget on Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles Times. A year ago, the cash-strapped city was sending workers on furloughs due to anticipated budget shortfalls.

The head of Italy’s social security entity has been criticised for calling to extend the basic income initiative to include migrants who have been in the country for less than ten years.

German researchers will give 120 people €1,200 a month for three years to see how their behaviour changes, after a study in Finland found that a similar experiment did not encourage unemployed Finns to find work.

By maintaining expanded unemployment benefits through 2013, the Obama administration delayed the national economic recovery from the Great Recession in 2009. A National Bureau of Economic Research study concludes that 1.8 million additional jobs were created in 2014 once the benefit was finally cut.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has reportedly donated $3 million to fund Mayors for a Guaranteed Income (MGI) a new coalition of 15 mayors across the country launching a universal basic income pilot program.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) listed a host of progressive agenda items that she believes need to be universally offered in the United States — including vote-by-mail, a basic income, and housing for all — but noted they simply serve as a “start.”

Democrat Stacey Abrams teamed up with former 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang on Tuesday to promote a program that would provide $1,000 each in direct cash payments to 100,000 families receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.

Support for Universal Basic Income (UBI), businessman Andrew Yang’s signature policy position, is growing among American voters, a new poll reveals.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has called for “helicopter money” payments of £1,000 into the bank accounts of every adult in the country for the next three months during the coronavirus crisis, fearing that the 11 million people who do not have a fixed income will suffer otherwise.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has drafted an amendment to a Republican plan that will ensure millions of very low-income Americans are eligible for $1,200 or more in federal payments in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.

Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang announced on Friday that his Humanity Forward nonprofit, through its Coronavirus Relief Fund, will distribute at least $1 million in cash aid to working families in New York and across the country during the coronavirus pandemic.

Former Democratic Party presidential candidate Andrew Yang has reached out to the White House to help President Donald Trump as the administration considers a version of Yang’s signature idea: $1,000 checks to all households.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Monday called for the United States to take more drastic measures to address the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, including a national “shutdown” that would only exclude “absolutely essential work” and stipends to affected workers to assist them in paying their bills as the pandemic continues to unfold across the globe.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is floating a plan to “get cash into the hands of affected workers and their families” due to national shutdowns of businesses in nearly every industry from the coronavirus outbreak.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said on Thursday that lawmakers should consider a swath of measures, including “no strings” universal basic income (UBI) programs, as a response to the economic impacts of the Chinese coronavirus.

Andy Yang said that Martin Luther King, Jr. championed a guaranteed minimum income for Americans.

The northern English city of Hull is set to become the first city in the United Kingdom to try to adopt a universal basic income scheme, despite the failure of similar schemes to reduce poverty and joblessness in America and Finland.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) signaled that she is open to a universal basic income – an idea that has been championed by fellow presidential contender Andrew Yang (D).

Andrew Yang’s offer from the Democrat debate stage last week to pay ten American families $1,000 a month for a year to showcase his universal basic income campaign promise has drawn almost a half a million email entries into the $120,000 lottery.

Presidential hopeful Andrew Yang promised he would give 10 American families a “freedom dividend” of $1,000 a month for a year — or $120,000 — during his opening statement at the Democratic debate on Thursday in Houston, Texas.

Democrat presidential hopeful Andrew Yang said on Saturday that Amazon’s domination in the retail sector helped elect Donald Trump.

Andrew Yang’s (D) aggressive pitch to offer a universal basic income of $1,000 monthly to U.S. adults has been attempted numerous times on a small scale, but the experiments have not necessarily produced the desired results.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took aim at fellow presidential candidate Andrew Yang’s (D) proposal for universal basic income, telling Hill.TV that a federal jobs guarantee is preferable because “people want to work.”

Jerry Nadler (D-NY) got another primary challenger this week — 25-year-old former Andrew Yang campaign staffer Jonathan Herzog.

Far-left “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib spoke at the NAACP convention over the weekend and railed against the GOP tax cuts in a pitch for her anti-poverty BOOST Act, promising to take money from the rich and give it “back to the people that earned it.”

Democrat 2020 candidate Andrew Yang claimed during Thursday’s debate that universal basic income, paid for by tax similar to Europe, would create “millions of jobs.”

Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke believes that presidential candidate Andrew Yang’s $1,000/month “freedom dividend” is now “an idea worthy of conversation” right now as more jobs are becoming automated.

Presidential candidate Andrew Yang’s campaign is arguing that his $1,000/month “freedom dividend” could reduce mass shootings and even lessen antisemitism.

Entrepreneur and 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang (D) is calling out Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for “backward-looking” solutions that are trying to “resuscitate” last century’s economy while raising concerns about Sanders’—and former Vice President Joe Biden’s—“advanced age.”

Presidential candidate Andrew Yang (D) on Monday evening mocked the mainstream media for still insisting that “Russia” collusion, “racism,” and “sexism” got President Donald Trump elected and not understanding that Trump’s economic nationalism actually propelled him to the White House.

Democratic 2020 presidential hopeful Andrew Yang, a New York City entrepreneur, made the case Tuesday for his “universal basic income” plan. Yang said his plan would give every American $1,000 “because we’re in the midst of the greatest economic and

A Democrat 2020 presidential hopeful is trying to promote his plan for a “universal basic income” by giving away cold, hard cash to potential primary voters in Iowa and New Hampshire.

An experiment where unemployed Finns were given a basic income failed to encourage them to find work, researchers have found.

Washington eighth district congressional district Democrat candidate Kim Schrier suggested during a debate on Wednesday night that she would remain open to backing a Universal Basic Income system, which some analysts have suggested could cost $3.8 trillion each year.