Tax Notes contributing editor Carrie Brandon Elliot discusses the rising interest in universal basic income, especially as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Carrie Brandon Elliot analyzes international tax issues. Artificial intelligence headliners are romancing universal basic income ...

The current cost-of-living crisis, high interest rates and the ensuing economic contraction have disproportionately hit low-income households. And for many low-income workers, the future remains ...

The titans of AI say they're coming for your job, but UBI will solve everything. Do they have a point? Reading time 12 minutes Three years ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published an essay dubbed “Moore’s ...

Some critics of basic income programs say that giving people "free" money will make them less likely to work. But a new study from Germany has found the opposite. The long-running basic income study, ...

I remember when George McGovern, the Democratic presidential nominee in 1972, promised that if elected, he would send each citizen a check each year for $1,000. In today’s dollars, that would be ...

AI is making ever more jobs obsolete. The solution from Silicon Valley? A universal paycheck, no work required. Technology titans including Elon Musk and Sam Altman see a future flush with wealth ...

Every generation faces a new technological revolution. Today it's artificial intelligence. Just 40 years ago it was the internet. And according to some of the biggest names in tech, AI may eventually ...

Universal basic income (UBI) provides regular payments to all individuals in a community, regardless of their employment status or financial need. The idea is that when everyone has enough money to ...