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Apr 2025
30:
AI, Automation, and the Urgent Case for Universal Basic Income
Feb 2025
21:
What's the deal with the $5,000 'DOGE Dividend' checks?
Feb 2025
11:
Top 10 Universal Basic Income Articles of 2024
Nov 2024
5:
The Hidden Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing — And How to Reverse It
Oct 2024
28:
Income To Support All Foundation Reaches $1.5 Million Fundraising Goal, Fully Funding Two Groundbreaking UBI Projects
Sep 2024
17:
Introducing "The Basic Income Show" on YouTube
Aug 2024
2:
Did Sam Altman's Basic Income Experiment Succeed or Fail?
May 2024
23:
Universal Basic Income or Universal High Income?
Apr 2024
4:
YouTube channel update: my new video explaining UBI in-depth
Feb 2024
28:
The Billionaire-Fueled Lobbying Group Behind the State Bills to Ban Basic Income Experiments
Jan 2024
23:
Why China Could Surprise the World by Being the First Country to Adopt Universal Basic Income
Jan 2024
8:
Top 10 Universal Basic Income Articles of 2023
Oct 2023
4:
Comingle Crowdfund Success and Other Basic Income News
Sep 2023
6:
Time To Crowdfund a UBI Platform
Aug 2023
31:
Sowing Seeds of Security: How Basic Income Is Taking Root in the U.S. through Local Pilots and Programs
Aug 2023
11:
Introducing the Income To Support All Foundation
Jul 2023
24:
My Closing Keynote Speech at England's Basic Income North 2023 Conference
Jul 2023
12:
The Big Red Button Argument for Unconditional Basic Income
May 2023
25:
Negative Income Tax is Not Cheaper Than Universal Basic Income, Nor is Guaranteed Income 'More Progressive' by Excluding the Rich
Apr 2023
27:
A.I. Will Not Displace Everyone, Everywhere, All at Once. It Will Rapidly Transform the Labor Market, Exacerbating Inequality, Insecurity, and Poverty.
Apr 2023
5:
The Fable of the Two-Headed Dragon-Tyrant and the UBI Missile
Mar 2023
28:
Did Spain's B-MINCOME Experiment Prove That Unconditional Basic Income Doesn't Work?
Feb 2023
21:
ChatGPT Has Already Decreased My Income Security, and Likely Yours Too
Feb 2023
3:
How Money is Born out of Public Spending and Dies by Taxes
Jan 2023
25:
The FairTax Would Implement a Universal Basic Income
Jan 2023
23:
One Year After the Expiration of the Enhanced Child Tax Credit, What All Have We Learned About Its Effects?
Jan 2023
11:
The Spaceballs Argument for Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)
Dec 2022
21:
No, Universal Basic Income Does Not Require Tax Rates of 40 to 60 Percent
Dec 2022
6:
The Gift-Giving Argument for Universal Basic Income
Nov 2022
15:
Is Unconditional Basic Income a Trap Being Laid by Global Elites to Control and Enslave Us All?
Oct 2022
21:
The BIG Picture of Money, Economics, and Humanity
Oct 2022
5:
Incoming! How UBI could change work (and the world)
Aug 2022
26:
The Toothpaste Argument for Universal Basic Income
Jul 2022
21:
Today’s Child Tax Credit Versus the Family Security Act 2.0
Jun 2022
2:
How the Baby Formula Crisis Helps Show the Difference Between Cash and Benefits-in-Kind
Apr 2022
27:
How to Calculate the Cost of Universal Basic Income (Hint: It's Not As Easy As You Might Think)
Apr 2022
21:
How the Monthly Child Tax Credit Reduced the Level of Desperation in America
Mar 2022
30:
No, Ukraine did not just introduce Universal Basic Income. Here is what it did do.
Feb 2022
14:
The Monthly Child Tax Credit Gave Birth to New Entrepreneurs
Feb 2022
2:
An Introduction to Unconditional Basic Income For All
Jan 2022
10:
The Rise of Omicron is Grounds for Extending the Monthly Child Tax Credit
Jan 2022
6:
Podcast Episode: Vision and Foundations for a Better Society
Dec 2021
16:
My New (And First) Book: Let There Be Money
Nov 2021
18:
Understanding Pandemic Inflation: How to Best Reduce and Alleviate It
Nov 2021
8:
How Work Requirements are Actually Anti-Work and Why the Fully-Refundable Child Tax Credit is Pro-Work
Oct 2021
28:
Proof of Humanity and the Universal Basic Income Coin
Oct 2021
6:
The Forward Book and the Forward Party
Sep 2021
15:
The Republican History of the Child Tax Credit and Why the GOP Should Proudly Embrace It
Sep 2021
13:
New on Vocal: Why We Need Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and Why It Needs Universal Basic Income (UBI)
Sep 2021
8:
Escaping Together
Sep 2021
3:
Letter to the Editor from a New Orleans evacuee
Aug 2021
26:
The Eviction Moratorium was Never the Answer. Cash Is.
Aug 2021
10:
My wife is immunocompromised. That's why I feel so strongly about people getting vaccinated.
Jul 2021
30:
How Republican President Richard Nixon Laid the Foundation for Monthly Cash for Kids
Jul 2021
15:
Monthly Child Tax Credit Payment Will Likely Grow the Economy
Jun 2021
1:
Is $300 a week in UI making people lazy and does it prove UBI doesn’t work?
Feb 2021
28:
What about combining a higher federal minimum wage with monthly recurring direct payments?
Feb 2021
5:
A Pandemic is a Great Time to Stop Ignoring Unpaid Care Work
Jan 2021
15:
2020 Revealed That Unconditional Basic Income Cannot Wait Any Longer
Jan 2021
13:
Escaping the Cult Commander in Chief
Nov 2020
5:
Basic Income as Liquid Infrastructure: The Bruce Lee Argument for UBI
Oct 2020
30:
An Engineering Argument for Basic Income
Oct 2020
27:
Should we support the many basic income experiments that aren't actually testing UBI?
Oct 2020
21:
With UBI, won't people just watch TV and play video games?
Oct 2020
12:
Why I'm voting for Biden/Harris 2020
Oct 2020
5:
We need UBI because we all need money, power, and trust
Aug 2020
31:
My Speech at the People's Convention
Aug 2020
26:
My Response to Steve Forbes' Opposition to Universal Basic Income
Jul 2020
17:
My Proposal for an Emergency UBI That Transitions Into a Permanent UBI
Jul 2020
10:
Dennis Explains 'The Implication' of Saying No
Jul 2020
3:
A Day in My Life in 2040
Jun 2020
17:
Why universal basic income instead of just lower taxes?
Jun 2020
5:
Universal basic income is the recognition that racial justice and economic justice are inextricably intertwined
Jun 2020
3:
My #TestifyForUBI Testimony for Congress
May 2020
11:
My Raconteur Interview About UBI
May 2020
4:
May the Force Be With UBI
Apr 2020
8:
The Future of the United States Depends on the Immediate Adoption of UBI
Mar 2020
30:
You Have Been Drafted Into the Great Coronavirus War
Mar 2020
21:
Unconditional Pandemic Security
Mar 2020
19:
Should We Provide Emergency Universal Basic Income to Everyone or Just Those Who Need It?
Jan 2020
31:
Introducing Andrew Yang
Jan 2020
8:
The Top Ten Andrew Yang Videos of 2019
Nov 2019
14:
11 Nobel Prize Winners Who Have Endorsed Universal Basic Income (UBI)
Oct 2019
23:
A Visual History of the #YangMediaBlackout
Sep 2019
13:
New bill introduced in New York State Senate to fund a 2-year conditional cash transfer pilot labeled as a UBI pilot
Aug 2019
22:
Goodbye, Medium
Jul 2019
31:
The Story of George McGovern's Failure to Guarantee Every American $1,000
Jul 2019
26:
Deradicalizing the Radicalized: How Andrew Yang's Campaign for Humanity First is Revealing How to Heal the Nation
Jul 2019
22:
There is No Policy Proposal by Any 2020 Presidential Candidate More Progressive than Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend
Jul 2019
3:
Andrew Yang makes U.S. history by introducing the idea of universal basic income onto the national debate stage
May 2019
31:
‘Universal Basic Income Doesn’t Work’ Says New Prime Example of Fake News
Apr 2019
30:
I am the Editor-in-Chief of a newly launched UBI news site - Basic Income Today
Apr 2019
22:
My Forbes Interview About Universal Basic Income
Apr 2019
12:
My time at UBI Nordic 2019 in Oslo, Norway
Mar 2019
28:
Think Like a Martian About Money and Universal Basic Income (UBI)
Mar 2019
21:
My Unconditional Basic Income Testimony for Maryland's House Ways and Means Committee
Feb 2019
26:
One Observed Effect of Unconditional Basic Income: Better More Reliable Transportation
Feb 2019
4:
What is Unconditional Basic Income in One Word?
Feb 2019
4:
What is There to Learn From Finland’s Basic Income Experiment? Did It Succeed or Fail?
Jan 2019
31:
Basic Income is now a dominant discussion in India's 2019 general election
Jan 2019
21:
"The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct, and immediate abolition of poverty." — Martin Luther King Jr.
Jan 2019
15:
Top 10 Basic Income Articles of 2018
Dec 2018
21:
Standing on Shoulders
Dec 2018
5:
What People Get Most Wrong About Unconditional Basic Income
Nov 2018
12:
The Zombification of Intellectual Property and the Tool That Could Finally Reform It
Sep 2018
18:
Doug Ford Cancelled Ontario’s Basic Income Pilot Experiment Because It Was Working
Aug 2018
6:
What We Need to Truly Thrive: Democracy and Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)
Aug 2018
3:
Basic Income Guarantee Would Provide Economic Security
Jul 2018
30:
One Thing to Build a More Open World: Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)
Jul 2018
13:
Unconditional Basic Income Would Fix a Major Flaw in Markets
May 2018
18:
The Monsters, Inc. Argument for Unconditional Basic Income
May 2018
1:
The Future of the Labor Movement Rests on the Achievement of Universal Basic Income
Apr 2018
30:
Don't Make People in Need Jump Through Hoops for Food
Apr 2018
13:
It's Time for Technology to Serve All Humankind with Universal Basic Income (UBI)
Mar 2018
30:
Here's what I said about automated vehicles and basic income at the House of Commons of Canada
Mar 2018
20:
Universal Basic Income Cryptocurrencies Like Manna are Pioneering the Way Towards Decentralized Targeting
Mar 2018
1:
This Idea Can Literally Change the World: Universal Basic Income Through Carbon Pricing
Feb 2018
9:
Will the Cost of Basic Income be Borne on the Shoulders of the American Middle Class?
Feb 2018
2:
Whitepaper and wallet now available for Universal Basic Income cryptocurrency "Manna", formerly known as Grantcoin
Dec 2017
23:
Top 10 Basic Income Videos of 2017
Dec 2017
21:
Top 10 Basic Income Articles of 2017
Dec 2017
12:
Someday we will look back and interpret the Constitution as having called for unconditional basic income all along
Nov 2017
24:
What would I do if everyone had a basic income?
Oct 2017
24:
The Real Story of Automation Beginning with One Simple Chart
Oct 2017
5:
Unconditional Basic Income is a Pigovian Subsidy for Unpaid Work
Sep 2017
30:
Stop Teaching Students WHAT to Think. Teach Them HOW to Think.
Sep 2017
22:
The Expanse's Basic Support vs. Basic Income
Aug 2017
31:
If you think basic income is "free money" or socialism, think again
Aug 2017
23:
For Want of a Dollar
Aug 2017
4:
It’s Time to Shift the Economy into Fourth Gear Capitalism with Univeral Basic Income
Jul 2017
7:
The Cost of Universal Basic Income is the Net Transfer Amount, Not the Gross Price Tag
Jun 2017
6:
Eating food will fail to reduce malnutrition, new report warns
Jun 2017
5:
How to Reform Welfare and Taxes to Provide Every American Citizen with a Basic Income
May 2017
25:
Cutting the Gordian Knot of Technological Unemployment with Unconditional Basic Income
Apr 2017
26:
Is the solution to extreme wealth inequality really – Alaska?
Apr 2017
11:
Basic Income is JUST Compensation
Mar 2017
23:
What if you got $1,000 a month, just for being alive? I decided to find out.
Mar 2017
8:
Basic Income and Soylent
Feb 2017
24:
Love, Loss, and a Greater Society
Jan 2017
16:
Why We Should All Have a Basic Income
Dec 2016
30:
Top 10 Basic Income Articles of 2016
Dec 2016
9:
In the 21st century, all roads appear to lead to universal basic income
Dec 2016
4:
A Basic Income Sermon for Christians
Nov 2016
30:
Universal Basic Income Will Accelerate Innovation by Reducing Our Fear of Failure
Nov 2016
11:
True Freedom Comes With Universal Basic Income
Nov 2016
2:
How to Make Our Votes for President of the United States Actually Count
Oct 2016
7:
From Rats in Cages to Primates in Paradise — The Scientific Story of Stress in Society
Sep 2016
8:
The Progressive Case for Replacing the Welfare State with Universal Basic Income
Aug 2016
11:
Olympians and the Great Myth of Meritocracy
Jul 2016
22:
Forget the future of work. What about the future of consumption?
Jul 2016
1:
Giving Goods vs. Giving Money
Jun 2016
6:
Why Switzerland’s basic income idea is not crazy
Jun 2016
5:
The Results of the Basic Income Referendum in Switzerland
May 2016
6:
Last Month in Basic Income... A Summary of April 2016
Apr 2016
26:
A Guide to Basic Income: Frequently Asked Questions about UBI
Apr 2016
7:
Last Month in Basic Income... A Summary of March 2016
Apr 2016
5:
Humanity Needs Universal Basic Income in Order to Stop Impeding Progress
Mar 2016
16:
Deep Learning Is Going to Teach Us All the Lesson of Our Lives: Jobs Are for Machines
Mar 2016
5:
The Social Network and Basic Income
Mar 2016
2:
YouTube as an Intrinsic Motivation Window
Feb 2016
26:
Inequality and the Basic Income Guarantee
Feb 2016
25:
Robots Will Take Your Jobs
Feb 2016
13:
The Disproportionate Effects of a Universal Basic Income
Jan 2016
29:
On the Record: Bernie Sanders on Basic Income
Jan 2016
21:
Basic Income Observations Log: Entry One
Jan 2016
16:
Robin Hoodwinked: How Billion Dollar Powerballs Reflect 21st Century Inequality
Jan 2016
6:
Who Wants a Free Sample of Basic Income?
Dec 2015
14:
Press Release: American Achieves First Crowdfunded Monthly Basic Income
Dec 2015
10:
Something Is Happening: Basic Income Create-A-Thons Are Here
Oct 2015
31:
What YouTube and Star Wars Fans Are Showing Us About the Future of Work
Oct 2015
25:
You can register to watch my panel live at the Brookings Institute
Oct 2015
23:
Universal Basic Income Will Likely Increase Social Cohesion
Oct 2015
6:
Jobs, Work, and Universal Basic Income
Sep 2015
22:
The U.S. Could Adopt Universal Basic Income in Less Than 20 Years
Sep 2015
21:
One Happy Story - The Citizens Basic Income
Aug 2015
19:
Everything You Think You Know About The History and Future of Jobs Is Likely Wrong
Aug 2015
7:
Should the Amount of Basic Income Vary With Cost of Living Differences?
Jul 2015
29:
Minimum Wages vs. Universal Basic Income
Jul 2015
22:
Trickle-Down Economics Must Die, Long Live Grown-Up Economics
Jul 2015
13:
Multimedia Appearances
Jul 2015
9:
Our Paradoxical Economy Courtesy of Technology and the Lack of Basic Income
Jun 2015
17:
If You Want to Pass Stuff Like TPP... We're Going to Need Basic Income
Jun 2015
12:
A Game of Musical Chairs Over Hot Coals
Jun 2015
4:
Do We Have Enough Space Bucks?
May 2015
27:
The Basic Affordability of Basic Income
May 2015
14:
Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driven Truck
May 2015
11:
Basic Income as Paid Parental Leave
May 2015
5:
Basic Income Day is a Great Idea, and Especially on May Day!
May 2015
1:
A Basic Income Day Toolkit
Apr 2015
30:
Motherboard interview about Basic Income Day
Apr 2015
27:
What America Spends Per Citizen Per Year
Apr 2015
17:
"Won't basic income give too much power to whomever distributes it?"
Apr 2015
10:
"Yeah, but who's going to pay for it?"
Apr 2015
7:
John Oliver, Edward Snowden, and Unconditional Basic Income
Apr 2015
6:
Reddit, Robots, and Resources
Apr 2015
1:
TANF is TERRIBLE
Mar 2015
31:
Dear Patreon:
Mar 2015
27:
"What do we do about drug users with basic incomes?"
Mar 2015
25:
My Guest Appearance on the P2P Connects Us Podcast
Mar 2015
24:
New Medium Article: Notes of Discussions in the North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress of 2015
Mar 2015
19:
The Water Room Analogy
Mar 2015
12:
Robot Overlordz Podcast Appearance
Feb 2015
25:
What I've observed since 2013 in the discussion about a basic income guarantee
Feb 2015
23:
Guess What Happened When Liberia Tested a Pilot Program of Cash Transfers to the Extreme Poor in Bomi
Feb 2015
19:
“If we no longer force people to work to meet their basic needs, won’t they stop working?”
Feb 2015
16:
Is It Actually Possible to Live on a Basic Income of $12,000 Per Year?
Feb 2015
11:
Debunking the Debunking of "Humans Need Not Apply" and More
Feb 2015
5:
Universal Basic Income as the Social Vaccine of the 21st Century
Feb 2015
4:
Why should adults with kids get more basic income?
Jan 2015
30:
The Potential Effects of a Universal Basic Income Guarantee on Student Loans
Jan 2015
26:
What We Can Learn About Systems from W. Edwards Deming
Jan 2015
22:
For Those Who Believe a Basic Income is Morally Wrong
Jan 2015
20:
How We Can Transform America’s Broken Economic System to Work for EVERYONE
Jan 2015
16:
Wouldn't a basic income just be stealing from those who earned their money?
Jan 2015
15:
Yes, It Really is Different This Time
Jan 2015
7:
Basic Income is Impossible
Jan 2015
2:
What Can We Do to Grow the Basic Income Movement in 2015?
Dec 2014
30:
Artist Brian Eno just learned about basic income and loves the idea
Dec 2014
23:
The Science Behind A Christmas Carol
Dec 2014
18:
Will Replacing Current Benefits With Cash Tomorrow Leave Today's Recipients Better or Worse Off?
Dec 2014
17:
Negative Income Tax (NIT) and Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)
Dec 2014
15:
My Responses to the Responses to the Basic Income Article in Newsweek
Dec 2014
9:
Women Have Lower Incomes Than Men
Dec 2014
4:
5 Steps to Becoming a BIG Contributor
Dec 2014
1:
Does Guaranteeing a Basic Income Reduce Income Inequality?
Nov 2014
26:
The Big Easy was noted for its low quality of life... Stop right there.
Nov 2014
23:
Google Hangout with Me and Marlen Vargas Del Razo of Living Income Guaranteed
Nov 2014
22:
Unearned Income and the Velocity of Money
Nov 2014
22:
Wouldn’t Unconditional Basic Income Just Cause Massive Inflation?
Nov 2014
21:
"What do we do about bad examples like this one?"
Nov 2014
21:
Google Homes and WikiHouses
Nov 2014
21:
Evidence and More Evidence of the Effect on Inflation of Free Money
Nov 2014
21:
Supply and Demand Variables
Nov 2014
19:
The Federal Reserve Just Published a Paper Comparing UBI and UI
Nov 2014
17:
"Fit for Work and Fit to Die": A Memorial for the Means-Tested
Nov 2014
14:
We Know How to Abolish Poverty. Why Don't We?
Nov 2014
11:
Basic Income and the Problem of Freeloading Freeriders
Nov 2014
6:
Shouldn't All This Talk About Basic Income Actually Be Talk About Basic Resources?
Nov 2014
4:
I Voted for Nader. Twice.
Nov 2014
3:
A Comment on the Massive Inequality in New Orleans
Nov 2014
2:
My Interview with Green Party Candidate for Congress Ian Schlakman of Maryland
Oct 2014
31:
Alaska vs. the U.S. Before and After Existence of the Yearly Alaskan Dividend
Oct 2014
28:
It’s Time We Take a Closer Look at America’s Three Favorite Words: Freedom, Liberty, and Democracy
Oct 2014
13:
Breaking Down Without a Spare
Sep 2014
1:
Machine Labor Day
Aug 2014
16:
Payday Loan Lenders Are Unstoppable… Or Are They?
Jun 2014
2:
Why Should We Support the Idea of an Unconditional Basic Income?
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