Winter Quarter Newsletter 2021
COVID-19 has been more than a health crisis. It is an economic crisis, a social crisis, a political crisis, a racial crisis and a generational crisis. In the United States, it has shed light on how many of the current safety net programs and systems are failing workers, families, communities and individuals. A basic income is increasingly being promoted as a possible policy to protect and promote economic security and social well being of individuals.


We continue to update our UBI and COVID-19 digest and Map of Basic Income Experiments and we will be adding new themes to the our online research visualizations tool this spring. If you have information about an experiment that we haven't included or work you would like us to share in the UBI and COVID-19 digest, send us an email! Stay tuned for more exciting research this year!
Visualizing UBI Research
The visualization bolsters basic income research by presenting existing facts and data around UBI in an accessible platform organized across multiple themes and subthemes including gender, race and health. We invite you to check out our video launch of the visualization featuring some of the Lab's grad fellows or interact with the online research visualization.
Innovative Papers from the Lab
What new services might open in a community when the people who live there have a secure economic base? What types of jobs are created when individuals have increased bargaining power? What types of governance processes emerge when individuals all receive the same support?

This report examines how a healthy communities lens can address unanswered questions about UBI in the United States. Read More
With increasing calls for a Universal Basic Income and a rise in experiments, a variety of names have been given to or associated with the proposal, including Guaranteed Income, Freedom Dividend, and Unconditional Basic Income.

This paper follows a workshop we held in March 2020 and presents several findings we hope can inform future basic income projects and pilots in the United States and internationally. Read More
Over the last ten years, as Universal Basic Income has moved up the policy agenda, many reviews and reports have taken stock of the evidence on unconditional and universal cash programs.

This cross-synthesis of recent reviews of the evidence on UBI-type programs provides a roadmap of the literature for experimenters, practitioners, policymakers and others involved in UBI development and implementation. Read More
In Case you Missed it...

How and where have Universal Basic Income and its cousin policies been tested? What are some significant differences between these programs? What impacts can be measured when giving individuals unconditional cash on a regular basis? 

Check out our video on the global map of experiments to get more information or Go to the Map

The Lab has put together a “living” digest of domestic and international tools, research and events on basic income during this global pandemic. We continue to update this resource as new papers and tools become available.

Please email the Lab if you have a resource or event that you would like us to include. Go to the Digest
We’re excited to announce that the Stanford Basic Income Lab is now on Twitter. Follow us @StanfordBIL to get the latest updates from the Lab and be in the know about current Universal Basic Income research, events, and news. Find Us
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