As our income-tax scale stands at present, a Very Basic Universal Income of $150 – payable to every tax-resident aged over 18 – could be mostly funded by abandoning the 10.5% and 17.5% tax rates. All ...

Despite rising longevity, Botswana has no stand-alone national policy for older people or their family carers. Responsibility ...

As the Minister of Finance for, David Paul is overseeing an initiative to administer universal basic income via blockchain. Launched in December, USDM1 is a s ...

There are moments in public life when a single news item captures the moral and fiscal drift of an entire political system. Last week, Maharashtra’s Forest Minister reportedly said that teak ...

Mental health problems account for the majority of sickness benefit claims, with 80% of young people on benefits claiming for a mental or neurodevelopmental disorder. Politicians worry there is ...

Despite rising longevity, Botswana has no stand-alone national policy for older people or their family carers. Responsibility remains fragmented across ministries, and at the time of writing, the long ...

Governments need to work together to regulate AI companies before the technology gets too powerful, argues Dex Hunter-Torricke, former Meta, SpaceX and Google DeepMind executive.

"It’s within organisations where you’re starting to see growth opportunities vanishing, AI nibbling away at people’s jobs, people who are really, really already well-equipped to navigate the future, ...

If anything, it underlines a deeper problem: an AI investment that destroys its own consumer base, and the middle ...

In the U.S., by contrast, a few hundred dollars a month for a relatively short period of time, typical of guaranteed-income pilots, rarely matches the steep costs of housing, child care, and health ...

With yet another round of massive layoffs announced in the tech industry, people are starting to seriously question what will ...

This is Drama Masks, a Bay Area performing arts column from a born San Franciscan and longtime theatre artist in an N95 mask. I talk venue safety and dramatic substance, or the lack thereof. Two ...