Knowing how to program a computer is good for you, and it’s a shame more people don’t learn to do it. For years now, that’s been a hugely popular stance. It’s led to educational initiatives as ...

Participants in the cash transfer experiment will receive a $800 monthly no-strings-attached payment and an $8,000 lump sum.

New York City is one of many areas across the country offering guaranteed basic income to low-income residents.joSon/Getty Images Guaranteed basic income programs can help low-income participants ...

The Cook County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved $7.5 million to make a guaranteed basic income pilot program ...

Just a few years ago, the idea of giving people money with no strings attached was seen as ludicrous in mainstream policy circles. This week, a documentary on so-called "guaranteed income" programs ...

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 ...

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A Coinbase and GiveDirectly pilot is giving $12,000 in USDC (a stablecoin) to low-income New Yorkers. The program takes inspiration from universal basic income experiments.

中国国家医疗保障局近日发布《2019年全国医疗保障事业发展统计公报》。数据显示，2019年全国基本医疗保险参保率稳定在95%以上。2019年参加职工基本医疗保险3.29亿人，参加全国城乡居民基本医疗保险10.2亿人。 More than 95 percent of Chinese were covered by the country's ...

Surely BASIC is properly obsolete by now, right? Perhaps not. In addition to inspiring a large part of home computing today, BASIC is still very much alive today, even outside of retro computing.