Each year on the holiday that bears his name, Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered for his immense contributions to the ...

Nearly six decades ago, Martin Luther King Jr. advocated for a form of basic income not unlike what AI leaders today suggest could be the salve to mitigate AI's impact on the workforce. King wrote in ...

As Americans struggle with the high cost of living, an old idea is getting a fresh look. In dozens of pilot programs around the country, policymakers and researchers are exploring what happens when ...

In 1967–68, amid the national college debate topic, versions of the idea reached the Oval Office in the Nixon era, then ebbed. A basic income isn’t just a check; it’s a system that collides with other ...

As global wealth inequality deepens and automation threatens to usher in a new form of technology-driven unemployment, many nations, from the wealthy and industrialized to the still-developing, are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. AI researcher working with the UN and others to drive social change. The global economy stands at an inflection point. While ...

The idea of guaranteed income programs has been around for decades, but it wasn’t until one of the country’s first guaranteed income programs launched in Stockton in 2019 that the idea began gaining ...