Americans get up to $1,000/month as UBI-style payments expand, with cities testing guaranteed income pilot programs.

State Sen. Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston), April 23, 2025. The Texas Senate has passed a bill to ban local governments from adopting guaranteed income programs. The proposed law comes as Harris County's ...

Evanston, Illinois has approved a new guaranteed income expansion program delivering automatic $500 monthly payments to 102 ...

The City of Newburgh is considering a one-year pilot program that would grant some residents a guaranteed basic income every month. A New York state grant already in the city’s possession would ...

Kellie has tons of houseplants because she loves to care for them and watch them grow. For the past two years, she has grown alongside her plants as a recipient of the city of Boulder’s guaranteed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. COOK COUNTY, Ill. — Cook County is moving to the next phase of its guaranteed income program after the pilot launched in 2022. The ...

Cook County’s pilot program to provide guaranteed income to more than 3,000 people did what it was intended to do, early findings suggest — it helped provide some economic stability. “We got to make ...

While guaranteed income advocates push to extend pilot programs to permanent government-sponsored cash assistance, one recipient spoke with Fox News Digital about the benefits of the policy. Austin, ...

Fifty-two families participated in the program, receiving payments of between $100 and $500 monthly. Participants were required to have a job or participate in a job training program. Programs such as ...

COOK COUNTY, Ill. — Cook County is moving to the next phase of its guaranteed income program after the pilot launched in 2022. The program leveraged $42,000,000 in federal funding provided by the ...