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Ride hailing app <keyword id="19895382" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Uber" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Uber" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Uber">Uber</keyword> has received an aggregator licence by the <keyword id="21734294" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Delhi-Transport-Department" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Delhi Transport Department" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Delhi Transport Department">Delhi Transport Department</keyword> to operate buses in the national capital under the <keyword id="19158971" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Delhi-premium-Bus-Scheme" source="Orion">Delhi premium Bus Scheme</keyword>, the company said in a statement. With this, Delhi becomes the first state to award a licence for bus operations, while Uber becomes the first aggregator to be granted a licence under the Delhi Premium Bus scheme, the statement said. "Following a successful pilot programme, where we witnessed significant demand for buses, we are thrilled to officially introduce the convenience of Uber rides to buses in Delhi," <keyword id="21734295" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="uber-shuttle" source="keywords">Uber Shuttle</keyword> India head Amit Deshpande said. Customers will be able to pre-book seats on their preferred route by choosing the 'Uber Shuttle' option on the <keyword id="1999454" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="uber-app" source="Orion">Uber app</keyword>. The formal launch of Uber Shuttle, a bus service tailored for daily commuting needs, brings to fruition a pilot programme that was initially tested in Delhi-NCR and has been operational in Kolkata since last year under an MoU with the West Bengal government, as per the statement. Commuters will be able to pre-book seats up to a week in advance, track the live location and route of the bus, and view its expected time of arrival (ETA) -- all through the Uber app, it said. Each shuttle vehicle will be able to accommodate 19-50 passengers and will be operated by local fleet partners using Uber's technology.

Uber gets licence to operate buses in Delhi

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Russia has received short-range ballistic missiles from Iran, NATO countries confirmed on Tuesday.</li><li>The US said Russia used a vessel called the Port Olya-3 to transport the missiles.</li></ul>A cargo ship suspected of transporting ballistic missiles from Iran was seen at a port in Russia last week, according to newly released satellite imagery.The US and its European allies confirmed Tuesday that Russia has received short-range ballistic missiles from Iran and is likely to use them to attack Ukraine within the coming weeks, calling the development a major escalation in the war.Moscow received its first shipments of missiles in early September and used a Russian-flagged vessel called the Port Olya-3 to transport the weapons from Iran, the US Treasury Department said.Satellite imagery recently captured by Maxar Technologies and obtained by Business Insider shows <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/11/europe/russia-iran-ballistic-missiles-satellite-intl/index.html">what has been identified</a> as Olya-3 at Port Olya on September 4. The port is located along the Caspian Sea in southwestern Russia's Astrakhan region.Several days earlier, in late August, Olya-3 was docked at the Iranian port of Amirabad, in the opposite corner of the Caspian Sea, publicly available ship tracking data shows.<div type="image" title="A satellite image of a port, where multiple cargo vessels can be seen." height="1444" width="2214" msid="113270601" hostid="261" sizebytes="398644"></div><div type="image" title="A satellite image of a port, where multiple cargo vessels can be seen." height="1446" width="2098" msid="113270603" hostid="261" sizebytes="338320"></div>Sky News <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://news.sky.com/story/russian-ship-captured-in-satellite-image-delivering-ballistic-missiles-from-iran-13212835">first reported</a> the newly available satellite imagery on Wednesday.Olya-3 regularly transits the Caspian Sea to move cargo between Iran and Russia, according to the Treasury Department, which <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2570">announced sanctions on the vessel</a> as part of widespread measures targeting Tehran and its assets in response to the missile transfers.US officials said dozens of Russian military personnel trained in Iran to use the Fath-360 missiles that <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-ballistic-missiles-iran-greater-flexibility-ukraine-us-warns-2024-9">Tehran has now delivered to Moscow</a>. These short-range ballistic missiles have satellite guidance and a maximum range of around 75 miles.The missiles can be equipped with a 330-pound warhead, posing a deadly threat to Ukrainian military positions and civilian infrastructure.It's unclear exactly how many missiles Russia received, although the Treasury Department said Moscow and Tehran signed an agreement in late 2023 for the supply of hundreds of missiles.John Kirby, a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, said that Russia could use the new Iranian missiles on closer-range targets in Ukraine while saving its own ballistic missiles to strike deeper.<div type="image" title="A missile launch, with fire erupting from the back and smoke filling the area." height="1125" width="2000" msid="113270600" hostid="261" sizebytes="63018"></div>The Biden administration has long warned of <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/iran-russia-defense-ties-worry-us-but-tehran-doubts-moscow-2023-7">deepening military ties</a> between Russia and Iran. Kirby said Tuesday that Moscow has shared space-related information and much-sought-after nuclear technology with Tehran.The British, French, and German governments called the delivery an "escalation by both Iran and Russia" and "a direct threat to European security.""This is a further escalation of Iran's military support to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and will see Iranian missiles reaching European soil, increasing the suffering of the Ukrainian people," the countries said in a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/news/e3/2675032?pk_campaign=newsletter_Press_release_2024_09_10&amp;pk_kwd=link_E3+Foreign+Ministers%E2%80%99+Statement+on+Iranian+transfers+of+Ballistic+Missiles+to+Russia">joint statement</a>.The delivery of Fath-360 missiles marks the latest weapons transfer from abroad to Russia as it continues to depend on other pariah states like Iran and North Korea for military assistance to help sustain its war machine in Ukraine.Iran has also supplied Russia with one-way attack drones, while North Korea has given Moscow ballistic missiles and artillery. Western countries, including the US, have condemned these transactions as destabilizing and escalatory.Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said Tuesday that it's likely the recent transfer of missiles between Iran and Russia won't be a "one-time good deal," noting that Moscow could seek additional munitions in the future.

Satellite images show the Russian cargo ship that transported ballistic missiles from Iran

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Hurricane Helene has caused price-gouging complaints to surge in southeastern states.</li><li>Price gouging involves hiking prices excessively on essential goods, often during emergencies.</li></ul>As <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-helene-destroyed-safe-haven-maples-coffee-shop-north-carolina-2024-10">Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc</a> across southeastern US states, complaints of price gouging have surged.<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/grocery-costs-inflation-kamala-harris-ban-price-gouging-election-trump-2024-8#:~:text=Price%20gouging%2C%20in%20which%20companies,high%20grocery%20prices%2C%20as%20well.">Price gouging</a> is when businesses <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/inflation-dynamic-pricing-surge-cost-fatigue-2024-7">hike prices on goods or services</a> to excessive levels, often during emergencies, like a natural disaster, taking advantage of high demand and limited supply.Business Insider contacted the states worst hit by <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/before-after-satellite-photos-hurricane-helene-destruction-florida-2024-10">the hurricane</a> — North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, and Virginia — and found that several of them were either inundated with complaints of price gouging or had to issue warnings against it.In South Carolina, which had about 36 storm-related deaths, the Attorney General's office told BI it had documented at least 142 price-gouging complaints since the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-helene-electric-vehicles-evs-owners-fire-risk-safety-tips-2024-10">start of Hurricane Helene.</a>"Of these, most of the complaints are about hotels, gasoline, gas cans, generators, ice, and eggs," said Robert Kittle, communications director for South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, in an email.He added that more complaints were expected, noting that they still had 246 voicemails and emails to review.However, Kittle said not all of the complaints would warrant further investigation or meet the legal definition of price gouging under the state's law.Wilson, the AG, announced on Thursday that the state's price-gouging law was in effect.<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.scag.gov/about-the-office/news/attorney-general-alan-wilson-announces-state-s-price-gouging-law-in-effect-because-of-hurricane-helene/">The announcement</a> said that while the state could expect normal price fluctuations, which are legal, it also anticipated "businesses and individuals looking to unfairly take advantage of the situation," which would violate the law.Kittle said that most of the complaints were coming from upstate South Carolina.In neighboring <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-helene-hits-asheville-beer-microbreweries-north-carolina-floods-2024-9">North Carolina</a>, which experienced the highest death toll of about 56, there were also dozens of price-gouging complaints.A spokesperson for the North Carolina Attorney General's Office said the state's Department of Justice had received 64 complaints alleging price gouging in western North Carolina.Most complaints were about hotel rates as well as grocery and fuel prices, which they said the AG's office was investigating.In <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://ncdoj.gov/attorney-general-josh-stein-provides-update-on-price-gouging-after-hurricane-helene/">a statement</a> provided to BI, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein said: "North Carolina has an anti-price gouging law to make sure that no bad actors try to take advantage of people's desperation.""My team and I aggressively enforce that law and won't let them," he added.Stein noted that more complaints might emerge as residents in western North Carolina, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-damage-port-strike-could-hurt-us-economy-2024-9">heavily impacted by Hurricane Helene,</a> could be facing difficulties connecting to phones or the internet.Florida, which had about 14 storm-related deaths, also received multiple complaints, though the state did not specify how many.Kylie Mason, communications director for Attorney General Ashley Moody, told BI they had received complaints "mostly about fuel and water."On Monday, Moody <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.myfloridalegal.com/newsrelease/consumer-alert-attorney-general-moody-warns-floridians-affected-hurricane-helene-about">issued a warning</a> urging Floridians to be "vigilant" for price gouging.The warning urged anybody suspicious of price gouging on storm-essential items to report it, noting that violators are subject to civil penalties of $1,000 per violation.The attorneys general of Tennessee, which had about eight deaths connected to Hurricane Helene, and Georgia, with about 25, did not immediately respond to BI's request for data. But both states have issued warnings on price gouging.Georgia's Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://consumer.georgia.gov/business-services/emergency-price-controls">warned </a>that "although competition and demand drive prices in our free-market economy," Georgia law prohibits businesses from "taking advantage of the situation" during a state of emergency.It said price increases are only allowed if they reflect legitimate cost increases in stock, transportation, or the retailer's typical markup from the 10 days before the emergency.Similarly, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti condemned price gouging <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.tn.gov/attorneygeneral/news/2024/10/1/pr24-70.html">in a statement on Tuesday</a>, urging victims to contact the Tennessee Division of Consumer Affairs."Price gouging and scamming vulnerable people after disasters is not only repulsive, it's illegal," he said.In Virginia, which had about two storm-related deaths, there were no complaints of price gouging at the time of reporting."While it is still early, we do not have any reports yet," said Shaun Kenney, director of communications for Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, in an email Tuesday.Kenney added: "The Virginia Attorney General's Office is doing everything we can to inform the public and make them aware of both their rights and the pathways available to move forward on any complaints or concerns."The issue of price gouging has become a political hot topic in the presidential election cycle, with Vice President <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-lower-grocery-prices-inflation-harris-price-gouging-proposal-2024-8">Kamala Harris pledging to stop it</a> in the food and grocery industries if she is elected president.Harris said she plans to pursue the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/grocery-costs-inflation-kamala-harris-ban-price-gouging-election-trump-2024-8">first federal ban on price gouging</a> in response to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-prices-inflation-soaring-corporate-greed-profits-margins-wages-jobs-2023-4">painful inflation</a> in recent years — a plan that has received <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kamala-harris-price-gouging-ceiling-policy-inflation-krugman-oleary-ramsey-2024-8">mixed reviews from economists.</a>

Price-gouging complaints about the cost of fuel, water, and hotels are surging in states hit by Hurricane Helene    

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su is launching a nationwide tour to promote good jobs.</li><li>The tour aims to highlight the importance of good jobs in pivotal swing states.</li></ul>Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su is hitting the road — and wants <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/julie-su-wants-fill-economy-good-jobs-2023-12">good jobs</a> to follow.Su is bringing the Department of Labor's "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/osec/osec20220621">Good Jobs Principles</a>" — a national framework for better working conditions and positions — across the country. And she's hitting several states that may <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/battleground-states-2024-presidential-election-road-white-house-2022-12">prove pivotal in the 2024 election</a>, with her first stop scheduled in Phoenix. Other stops include Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Michigan."A good job is one that not only pays family-sustaining wages and benefits, but also one in which workers have a voice, where every worker goes home healthy and safe every day, and where families can get — in the President's words, 'some breathing room,'" Su told BI. "Throughout this summer nationwide tour, I will be highlighting the work that the Department of Labor has done with community partners on the ground to help ensure that every job is a good one, and that every worker feels the commitment that this Administration has made to fight for them."The tour comes as the Biden Administration faces a continued mismatch between economic reality and perceptions. While the labor market is booming, and wages are still going up, many Americans <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-is-us-economy-recession-outlook-2023-6">have felt continually dreary</a> about their economic outlooks over the past few years — what some have termed the vibecession.But the labor market has <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/consumer-confidence-economy-stock-market-gas-prices-eggs-vibes-recession-2024-1">emerged as one bright spot</a> and bolstered Americans' perception of the economy in the latest reading of the Conference Board's <a target="_blank" href="https://www.conference-board.org/topics/consumer-confidence/press/CCI-May-2024">Consumer Confidence Index</a>."The Biden Administration has made improving job quality for this country's workers a priority—and we're seeing those efforts pay off," Su said.As part of the tour kickoff, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego will also announce the city's commitment to the Good Jobs Principles. When city officials sign on to the initiative, they commit to the framework as they seek federal funding for different types of projects.It's the DOL's latest attempt at promoting the idea of "good jobs," and making them more widespread. Part of Su's <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/julie-su-wants-fill-economy-good-jobs-2023-12">guiding edicts</a> is to fill the economy with jobs that provide workers security, stability, good pay, and benefits. The Good Jobs Principles framework outlines eight hallmarks of what makes a job good quality; that includes hiring and recruitment from underrepresented backgrounds and doing away with <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ibm-accenture-dell-companies-no-longer-require-college-degrees-2023-3">unnecessary educational</a> or <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/job-postings-no-education-college-degree-requirements-hiring-skills-indeed-2024-2">credential requirements</a> — a major barrier for many workers. It also includes better pay, benefits, job security, and access."It's not just good enough that we have created these jobs when a lot of people can't get to them. So it's embedding equity in the way that we're creating these jobs, " Teresa Acuna, the senior policy advisor and deputy director of the Good Jobs Initiative, said. That could mean everything from training to a transportation voucher to childcare."It means taking the more comprehensive look of some of the obstacles that workers have as to why we have a lot of over-representation of people in certain types of jobs versus others," she said.The tour stops are cities and communities that have already been actively working with the Good Jobs Initiative, as workers receive training and get to work."We're not parachuting in," Acuna said. "These are places we have relationships and we're probably going to be revisiting a few times in the next couple of months, but the tour is a snapshot in time of what a lot of this work has been happening already. And that's pretty exciting to us."Are good jobs a key issue for you in this upcoming election? Contact this reporter at <a target="_blank" href="mailto:jkaplan@businessinsider.com">jkaplan@businessinsider.com</a>.

The Biden Administration's labor department is hitting the road for 'Good Jobs Summer'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Buying an EV may be more difficult in some states than others.</li><li>Dealers in some rural states have limited supplies of electric cars, data from CarGurus has shown.</li></ul>Buying an EV is more difficult in some states than others, new data has suggested.Data from car-listing platform CarGurus shows that over one-third of new electric vehicles are going to California, Texas, and Florida.The data, which tracks EV inventory in dealerships and doesn't include companies like <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla">Tesla</a>, Rivian, and Polestar that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/electric-cars-killing-car-dealership-as-we-know-it-2023-1">sell their vehicles to customers directly</a>, showed that 14 states had less than 500 EVs available through dealerships at the end of March 2024.Five of those states — North Dakota, Montana, South Dakota, Alaska, and Wyoming — had fewer than 250 EVs available, with potential buyers in Wyoming able to choose between just 62 vehicles. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-29/most-evs-in-the-us-are-still-being-shipped-to-the-same-few-states">Bloomberg</a> initially reported the CarGurus data.The data comes amid <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/electric-car-ev-sales-prices-problem-transportation-2024-1">a nationwide slowdown in demand</a> for electric vehicles, with rural areas already having lower rates of EV adoption.The US Department of Transportation estimates EV adoption is <a target="_blank" href="https://www.transportation.gov/rural/ev/toolkit/ev-benefits-and-challenges/individual-benefits">roughly 40% lower in rural areas</a>, and has previously warned <a target="_blank" href="https://www.transportation.gov/rural/ev/toolkit/ev-benefits-and-challenges/challenges-and-evolving-solutions">a lack of exposure to electric vehicles</a> risks harming EV uptake in these regions.Now, the scarcity of dealer supply has made it more difficult to acquire some of America's most popular electric cars in the country's rural states.<a target="_blank" href="https://electrek.co/2024/04/02/hyundai-ioniq-5-sets-march-us-sales-record-ev-sales-surge/">Hyundai's Ioniq 5, for example, reportedly sold 6,822 units</a> in the first three months of the year and set a new record, per Electrek. However, the dealership data shows only 10 Ioniq 5s available in West Virginia at the end of March and seven in Iowa, for example.Volkswagen reportedly sold <a target="_blank" href="https://insideevs.com/news/714806/us-volkswagen-id4-sales-decreas/">6,167 of its ID.4 electric SUV</a> in Q1 and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a60009160/2024-volkswagen-id4-dual-motor-drive/">nearly 40,000 in 2023</a>. But would-be EV buyers in Louisiana had two ID.4 vehicles to choose from. Maine, Mississippi, Arkansas, Michigan, and South Dakota had 23 available between them.Both West Virginia or Nebraska, meanwhile, had just a single Nissan Arriya on offer, the data showed.The data also suggests that in some states, EV inventory is lagging behind the rate at which people are buying them.EVs accounted for 18% of total vehicle sales in Colorado in the fourth quarter of 2023 and 13% in Nevada, according to data from the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.autosinnovate.org/posts/papers-reports/Get%20Connected%20EV%20Quarterly%20Report%202023%20Q4.pdf">Alliance of Automotive Innovation</a>, an industry trade body. But EVs made up only 10% and 6% of new car inventory in the two states in CarGurus' data.The findings come as automakers in the US reckon with <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-sales-miss-ev-slowdown-new-wave-customers-2024-4">slowing sales and faltering demand</a> for EVs.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-cuts-production-of-f150-lightning-cybertruck-rival-ev-demand-2023-12">Ford</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gm-hybrids-plan-good-for-car-dealers-and-shopper-2024-1">General Motors</a> have shaken up their ambitious EV plans in response, and many companies are prioritizing the development of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-joins-tesla-in-touting-affordable-evs-as-demand-stalls-2024-4">more affordable electric models</a> that may appeal to a broader range of customers.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The US State Department instructed Americans to avoid traveling to <keyword id="11933000" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mexico" source="Orion">Mexico</keyword>.</li><li>As of February 1, Mexico has an average of 36,689 new <keyword id="8764262" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid" source="Orion">COVID</keyword> cases per day, according to Reuters.</li></ul>The US State Department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are advising Americans against traveling to Mexico due to a high risk of <keyword id="11893194" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus" source="Orion">coronavirus</keyword> transmission.The advisory jumped from a "Level 3" recommendation of "reconsider <keyword id="11896628" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="travel" source="Orion">travel</keyword>" on December 8, 2021, to a "<a href="https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/mexico-travel-advisory.html">Level 4" recommendation</a> of "do not travel" on January 31, 2022.As of February 1, Mexico has an average of 36,689 new COVID cases per day, <a href="https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/countries-and-territories/mexico/">according to the Reuters COVID-19 tracker</a>. The outlet also reports that the average number of deaths has risen by over 270 per day over the last three weeks.The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/mexico-covid-cases.html">reports</a> that 60% of people in Mexico are fully vaccinated and 66% have received at least one dose as of Tuesday.The <a href="https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/covid-4/coronavirus-mexico">CDC</a> says to avoid traveling to Mexico, but, if travel is necessary, "make sure you are vaccinated and up to date with your COVID-19 vaccines" and "properly wear a well-fitting mask in indoor public spaces."

State Department issues advisory recommending Americans to not to travel to Mexico due to COVID-19

<ul class="summary-list"><li>UBI advocates in Oregon say they collected enough signatures to get the measure on the ballot.</li><li>The first-of-its-kind initiative would give each resident $750 a year by taxing corporations.</li></ul>Oregon voters may soon decide if the Beaver State will be the first in the country to implement a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-basic-income-2016-8">universal basic income program</a> that would put cash in residents' pockets by taxing corporations.Advocates of Initiative Petition 17 have said they collected thousands more signatures than required to get the guaranteed income proposal on Oregon's ballot this fall, according to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2024/06/proposed-ballot-measure-proposal-to-raise-corporate-taxes-give-every-oregonian-750-a-year-likely-to-make-november-ballot.html">The Oregonian</a>. The Secretary of State's office must still certify the signatures before the measure can officially be added to the November ballot. Voters would then approve or reject the initiative.The Oregon proposal comes as increasing numbers of US cities and counties <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/which-states-cities-have-guaranteed-basic-income-programs-low-income-2024-4">pilot basic income programs</a>. The programs typically involve a recurring cash payment given to all people within a certain population, and program participants receive the money regardless of their employment. Recipients also have no limitations on how the money can be spent.Oregon's proposed UBI program would be a first-of-its-kind initiative, granting every state resident about $750 a year, according to The Oregonian. To fund the program, a 3% tax on corporations' sales above $25 million would be implemented, and the resulting money would be distributed evenly to residents of all ages.Oregon's State Department of Revenue would be responsible for doling out the money, and residents would choose to receive their funds either as a cash payment or a refundable tax credit, according to the initiative draft. Any leftover funding from the corporation tax would be put toward services for the elderly, the healthcare system, and education.Support for the proposal appears to have some <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/guaranteed-basic-income-ban-ubi-arizona-texas-houston-homelessness-poverty-2024-2">business leaders worried</a>, The Oregonian reported. Business groups are preparing for a fight over the measure and readying a campaign to fight the proposal, arguing it would hurt the state's economy.The results from <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/basic-income-gbi-ubi-low-income-americans-afford-housing-food-2024-5">more than 100 basic income pilots</a> that have run in the US in recent years suggest the concept is overwhelmingly successful.While data is still limited, more and more places are piloting their own basic income programs, including North Carolina, which has given cash to formerly incarcerated people, and Oregon, which has already <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/oregon-guaranteed-basic-income-experiment-ubi-homeless-youth-housing-security-2024-2#:~:text=About%2075%20of%20the%20recipients,%243%2C000%20%22enrichment%20fund%22%20payment.">handed out funds to homeless youth</a>.Participants in these programs typically fall below the federal poverty line, though some pilot programs have zeroed in on specific populations, like households with children or the formerly incarcerated.Many people who have received basic income payments primarily use the money to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-people-spend-universal-basic-income-ubi-food-housing-transportation-2024-4#:~:text=UBI%20generally%20refers%20to%20a,how%20they%20spend%20the%20money.">pay for basic living costs</a> like food, housing, and transportation, Business Insider previously reported.As basic income programs become more commonplace, however, the concept is gaining <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/basic-income-opposition-discriminatory-universal-basic-income-argument-2024-4">political and economic opposition</a>. Conservative lawmakers have accused guaranteed basic income of being a "socialist" tactic and suggest the programs could discourage low-income people from working.But basic income pilots, for the most part, seem to be <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/boston-guaranteed-basic-income-gbi-ubi-buy-home-pay-debt-2024-2">working</a> — <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/universal-basic-income-works-red-state-blue-state-2023-10">even in red states</a>.

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