Business Insider

A basic income program funded by descendants of slave owners provides $1,000 a month as a form of reparations

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Illinois is launching a basic income pilot for 400 families in the child welfare system in the hopes of reducing maltreatment

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USA Today

Guaranteed basic income pilot programs are growing around the country, and community leaders are doing something about it

If you were living paycheck to paycheck, what could you do with extra cash that came with no conditions attached? A 2020 study from the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University found ...
MassLive

Chelsea basic income program so successful, it’s coming back, officials say

Over a year after the city of Chelsea gave 2,000 families $400 a month between 2020 and 2021, much of which was spent on groceries, city officials are planning a second round of payments beginning in ...
PC World

Microsoft’s first-ever programming language was just open-sourced

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...