Tag: poverty

• What Is UBI | The Stanford Basic Income Lab

  August 23, 2025

  Universal basic income takes on distinct forms in different historical and geographic contexts. It varies based on the funding proposal, the level of payment, the frequency of payment, and the… more ›

• “Play-to-earn” and Bullshit Jobs

  December 30, 2021

  In Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, David Graeber makes the case that a sizable chunk of the labour economy is essentially people performing useless work, as a sort of subconscious self-preservation… more ›

• The stock market vs. the hunger index: The painful display of India’s inequality during the pandemic

  January 24, 2021

  One of the world’s top 10 richest men is Indian, but nearly a fourth of the world’s poorest people live in India. And Covid-19 only made this paradox worse. “The pandemic has reinforced some… more ›

• A nation on pause: coronavirus in India

  May 24, 2020

  Nilanjana S Roy   It was the beginning, though we did not know what it meant then, the river of men and women eddying towards the Nizamuddin Railway Station in… more ›

• The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities

  November 26, 2018

  The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities But first she had to recline the passenger seat of her 2015 Nissan Leaf as far as it would go—that… more ›

• Billionaires vs. Poverty: Behind a Push to Use Data to Boost Economic Opportunity in Cities

  November 23, 2018

  Billionaires vs. Poverty: Behind a Push to Use Data to Boost Economic Opportunity in Cities The philanthropies of several of the country’s wealthiest people are teaming up to push cities… more ›