Newsletter 25, Feb, 2026

Guaranteed basic income, also known as universal basic income, is one of the more contested threads in America's social safety net.

Universal Basic Income (UBI) is one of the most hotly debated policy ideas of our time. The concept—providing every citizen

Researchers partner with climate change charity Cool Earth in world-first basic income pilot for indigenous people

New York City's Cash with Care guaranteed income program provides $1,200 monthly to youth facing housing insecurity. Learn eligibility

Read about a Kenya study where cash cut infant deaths by 48% and GiveDirectly’s new pilots to reach more expectant mothers.

Learn about the key insights and five pilots that emerged from GiveDirectly’s recent “Cash for Conservation” workshop in Nairobi, where participants explored tackling conservation not by restricting c...

Learn about the key insights and five pilots that emerged from GiveDirectly’s recent “Cash for Conservation” workshop in Nairobi, where participants explored tackling conservation not by restricting c...

Benchmarking multi-dimensional in-kind programmes against cost-equivalent unconditional cash transfers reveals that cash can be more effective in improving consumption and asset accumulation.

My Keynote Speech at Imagine Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics Also available in Italian, Spanish, and Korean Think like a Martian… That’s a lesson I learned years ago from a theoretical physici...