Justice Democrats today endorsed Angela Gonzales-Torres, who is challenging incumbent Jimmy Gomez for his seat in California’s 34th District.
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Guaranteed Income Gets a New Life
A surge of federal funding from the American Rescue Plan has helped cities develop pilot guaranteed income programs. Will they last?
Posted inPolitics
How Crypto Cash Could Determine Chicago’s Next Mayor
Prior donations from Sam Bankman-Fried have damaged Chuy García’s campaign. But Mayor Lori Lightfoot has her own crypto ties.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Is America Ready for a Universal Basic Income?
Initial pilots are very promising, but more work needs to be done.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
New Solutions Unveiled to Curtail L.A. County’s Black Infant and Maternal Death Rates
Experts hope new universal basic income programs and an innovative maternal center will help protect Black infants and mothers.
Posted inPodcasts
UBI and a Socialist Work Ethic
How we can eradicate poverty, and what that might do to the labor market.
Posted inVideos
⏩ It’s Payback Time: Can Public Programs Get Us Out of Economic Depression?
Watch four writers from our May/June issue in conversation about public payment programs.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Cash Is King
UBI is politically popular, easy to enact, and looks effective as policy. Is it really that simple?
Posted inPolitics
Andrew Yang’s Discomfiting Vision for New York City
It infuses Silicon Valley–style ideas and private philanthropy into an eroding safety net, and calls for no sacrifice from the wealthy.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Biden’s Child Tax Credit as Universal Basic Income
The most transformative part of the American Rescue Plan will be very hard for Republicans to reverse.