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Here's where funding comes from for guaranteed basic-income programs giving money with no strings attached to low-income Americans
Basic income programs in San Antonio, Austin, Denver, and Atlanta draw funding from federal relief,…
Allie Kelly,Noah Sheidlower
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Some people are being given thousands of dollars with no strings attached in universal basic income trials. They mostly spend the cash wisely.
A common question about universal basic income, or UBI, is how people spend the money, but early tr…
Theron Mohamed
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I'm a former JP Morgan exec who now works to distribute basic income payments to those in need. Here's why I do it.
Wole Coaxum left his high-level job at JP Morgan to start a B Corporation that distributes guarante…
Katie Balevic
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I get $500 monthly from a basic income program. The money helped me get through my husband's cancer diagnosis.
Lira Campbell will get $500 a month for 5 years from a basic income program in New York. "We have t…
Katie Balevic
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Arlington, Virginia gave people $500 a month. They worked less overtime and pursued education instead, a report found.
A guaranteed basic-income program in Arlington, Virginia that gave people $500 a month with no stri…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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We moved from the US to Sweden. After-school care was basically free, but my kid barely learned any math.
He moved from Los Angeles to Sweden with his family. There school is very affordable, but his child…
Andy Kryza
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How universal basic income would work best — and it might not be monthly cash payments, a Nobel prize winner's new research suggests
The longest-running universal basic income study suggests a lump-sum payment, rather than monthly c…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Universal basic income improved lives in rural Canada when they tried it in the '70s. Here's why the program got scrapped.
A universal basic income program that Canada tested for three years improved families' educational …
Katie Hawkinson
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800,000 student-loan borrowers missed payments because their servicer failed to meet its 'basic obligation.' Here's what happens now.
If you got automatically put on forbearance, it might be because servicer MOHELA made a mistake wit…
Ayelet Sheffey
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CBSE opposes PIL in Delhi HC seeking common syllabus across India
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has opposed a petition challenging certain provisio…
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Student-loan borrowers struggling with repayment need more help than what the Education Department has offered — and they might not get it
Student-loan company MOHELA lost $7 million in pay, the first servicer to get punished for repaymen…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Meet the 'new predators in higher education' who are driving students deeper into debt
Online courses provide huge profits to colleges — while saddling students with mediocre class…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Varanasi to be known as Sanskrit city
Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will now be known as the …
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Meet a teacher with cancer who was evicted, but got a new home thanks to $500 a month from a guaranteed-income program
"The first thing I thought was, 'This is going to be really bad,'" Elizabeth Softky told Insider. B…
Jason Lalljee
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A major student-loan company failed to send on-time billing statements to 2.5 million borrowers. Biden's Education Department is punishing it.
The Education Department is withholding $7.2 million in pay from MOHELA following its errors that p…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Babies have better brain development if their family gets $300 a month, a new study finds — but Biden's $300 monthly check program just ended
Stimulus for families, such as UBI or expanded child tax credits, improves cognitive development, r…
Jason Lalljee
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First, Barbados said goodbye to the Queen and dubbed Rihanna a 'national hero.' Now, it wants to give money to its citizens forever.
Barbados better have my money. You don't have to work work work for it. Barbados is proposing unive…
Jason Lalljee
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I used to work for Apple and watched it lose the K-12 education market to Google. Now it could lose the next generation of fans.
Apple used to dominate in schools and with K-12 kids. But as back-to-school season kicks off, it a…
Michael Gartenberg
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Pandemic reversed improvement seen in rural children's basic reading and math skills: ASER report
The basic reading ability of school students across all classes has dropped to pre-2012 levels whil…
PTI
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I'm a college sex educator. Here's what all students should know about sex before move-in day.
A sex educator says some incoming freshmen think that they have to have sex to fit in or that talki…