One-hundred low-income Salem residents who recently completed a guaranteed basic income program reported high levels of satisfaction and improvements to overall quality of life, describing the monthly ...

Pilot sent $500 monthly to 150 families in 2024–25, stabilizing household finances. Study found reduced food insecurity, lower stress and declines in debt levels. Program aided rural farm households ...

Salem State will host a panel discussion on the program and its impact on those who received the funds.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While guaranteed income advocates push to extend pilot programs to permanent government-sponsored cash assistance, one recipient ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Some Chicago aldermen on Thursday are exploring a proposal to give some residents a guaranteed basic income. It would likely amount to monthly payments for low-income residents, with ...

The Mayors for a Guaranteed Income coalition decried the dismantling of federal aid programs in a news release published on Tuesday. "At a time when key federal aid programs are being dismantled, ...

The second-largest county in the United States has established a permanent guaranteed basic income program after the success of a previous pilot version. The Cook County Board of Commissioners ...

A coalition supported by 250 US lawmakers gathered preliminary reports for 27 pilot programs. Of that collection, none of the pilot programs resulted in employment or workforce decline. As Americans ...

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 ...

In Colorado, full-time workers need to earn an hourly wage of at least $36.79 to afford $2,000 in monthly rent, which is below the federal fair market rate for a Denver-area two-bedroom unit. For many ...