For high-income recipients, most of that $1,000 would have gone right back to the U.S. Treasury when they paid income taxes.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A New Jersey lawmaker is proposing a nationwide pilot program for a guaranteed basic income. The 3-year experiment would give ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New York City is one of many areas across the country offering guaranteed basic income to low-income residents.joSon/Getty Images ...

Universal Basic Income programs have roots in the Black radical tradition, both the Black Panther Party and Martin Luther King Jr. called for a guaranteed income in the late 1960s. Universal Basic ...

When Polity asked me if I’d write a book titled The Case for Universal Basic Income, I hesitated because I’ve always felt myself to be a skeptical supporter rather than an outright advocate. In the ...