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New York mayoral candidate Andrew Yang is focusing his bid to lead the city on a basic income proposal that echoes his presidential campaign's $1,000 per month universal basic income. But unlike his presidential campaign plan, the new policy seeks to

Andrew Yang will not be speaking at the Democratic National Convention. Yang and his supporters were disappointed by the news. The entrepreneur and former Democratic presidential candidate gained support for his progressive policies, including universal b

Nearly a month after ending his long shot Democratic presidential campaign, Andrew Yang launched on Thursday a nonprofit group focused on making the central ideas of his campaign a reality.

As the Democratic debate kicks off on Wednesday, one town in California is experimenting with a version of universal income that is espoused by candidate Andrew Yang.

Businessman Andrew Yang has centered his campaign around a $1,000-a-month universal basic income.

The world's most prominent trial of universal basic income has ended -- and the first results are in.

The Alaska Permanent Fund is tied to oil revenues and worth $65 billion. It has made an annual check of $1,000 to $2,000 available to virtually every citizen since 1982. The fear that giving people regular, no-strings-attached payments might discourage th

The tech incubator will finally begin its full-fledged basic-income test in 2019.

Concerned that automation and unemployment will result in further political polarization, Alderman Ameya Pawar is promoting a pilot program to give $500 a month to 1000 Chicago families.

Richard Nixon had originally intended that every poor family of four in America with zero income would receive sixteen hundred dollars a year (the equivalent of about eleven thousand dollars today), plus food stamps; the supplement would fade out as earnings increased. He sought to be the President

"It's a disgrace to see people sleeping on the streets with this material wealth all around them," says iconic entrepreneur Richard Branson. He says Europe should have a basic income too.

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes wants to tax anyone who makes over $250,000 to the tune of nearly $3 trillion over ten years, then use the proceeds to provide universal basic income (UBI) to every working American who makes under $50,000 a year, includin

Michael Tubbs is the 27-year-old leader of one of California's biggest cities. And he's using that position to try out some truly radical policy ideas.

While Finland's basic-income experiment is still attracting attention internationally, Finnish decision-makers have already made a silent U-turn, scrapping plans to extend the project.

Andrew Yang argues that for capitalism to thrive in the United States, a universal basic income will have to help keep a generation of workers from being lost. His new book, "The War on Normal People," argues that a massive loss of jobs within the next 10-15 years is unavoidable. He advocates for a

Hughes says "definition of work" that would be required to qualify for the monthly benefit should be expanded to include a parent who takes care of their own child at home.

Beveridge’s work is being celebrated but 75 years on – and with public mood poisoned – his ideas would be a hard sell now

Nearly half of Americans now support it.

Letters: Things might have turned out differently had President Nixon not been reminded of Speenhamland, says David Beake. Plus Mike Higgins on how today's student loan system shows the feasibility of the sort of large taxation shift necessary for a U

More Americans are on board with programs that would provide regular checks, regardless of employment.