Frontierofficial/Flickr GiveDirectly, a charity focused on direct cash transfers, has launched its 12-year experiment on basic income.
The charity will test whether giving people money, no strings attached, will help people and communities or leave them worse off.
Other basic income experiments are popping up across the globe. GiveDirectly, a charity that has been financing direct cash transfers to poor villages in East Africa since 2008, announced Monday that it has officially launched the largest universal basic income (UBI) experiment in history.Beginning November 13, 40 villages (roughly 6,000 people) will receive roughly $22.50 per month, no […]
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