The notion of a basic income has long been of interest to Professor of Law Daniel Hemel, whose scholarship has examined ...

Universal basic income (UBI) may well be the Swiss Army ... nearly once a generation since the American Revolution, when Thomas Paine first suggested that a “ground rent” of £15 be paid ...

Known as universal ... basic needs,” says Jamie Hopkins, managing partner of wealth solutions in the Philadelphia office of financial firm Carson Group. One early UBI proposal came from Thomas ...

The first pilot programme trialing a universal basic income (UBI) in England has been ... In the late 18th century, Thomas Paine argued that mass enclosures of common land meant a form of basic ...

The $100 million pilot program was proposed by lawmakers who would like to give up to 10,000 a monthly check of $500.

Depending on whom you ask, providing all Americans with a guaranteed universal basic income could erase inequality and spur entrepreneurship or it could be a recipe for economic disaster.