The concept of a universal basic income has picked up plenty of champions in the business world, including Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla. But the idea has yet to receive great scholarly scrutiny.

Figures including Sam Altman think a form of universal basic income, or UBI, could be a solution if artificial intelligence ...

The idea gained some currency in the 1960s and 1970s, with proponents ranging from Martin Luther King Jr. to President Richard Nixon, who proposed a "negative income tax" similar to basic income.

Why Some People Think It Could Work On its surface, simply handing out money seems like an insane idea. However, many economists and political thinkers have long asserted that its benefits would ...

The concept of a basic income – combining several existing income and social supports into a single, income-tested but otherwise unconditional cash benefit – has been debated for more than 200 ...

Basic income, which would guarantee a certain amount of money to a country's citizens regardless of their employment status, is having a moment in the sun in Canada.

Well, yes. The whole idea of health insurance is to establish a system in which the people who are healthy pay for the people who are sick.This really isn't that complicated.

American Housing Policy’s Two Basic Ideas Pull Cities in Opposite Directions Local governments can’t resist trying to make a home both a cheap purchase and a lucrative investment. By Daniel Hertz ...