A small Pacific nation has launched what officials describe as the first nationwide universal basic income (UBI) program, offering quarterly payments to citizens as a financial safety net. In some ...

As Americans grapple with persistent inflation and the looming threat of job displacement from artificial intelligence, an old idea is gaining new momentum: Universal Basic Income (UBI). The concept ...

The Marshall Islands has launched Enra, a universal cash transfer that pays US$200 quarterly to resident Marshallese citizens. The program is enabled by the Compact of Free Association with the United ...

The launch of the UBI program, utilizing a “digital sovereign bond,” occurred two months after the IMF warned against the island nation using an “untested” digital asset. Update (Nov. 18 at 12:10 am ...

Earlier this week, humanities professor Will Glovinsky authored an essay in the Conversation tracing the origins of basic income. The closing of the commons in England from 1604 to 1914, he notes, ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – The Massachusetts state legislature is considering multiple bills that aim to overhaul the estate tax and bills that introduce a universal basic income pilot program. Five bills are ...

Billionaire tech bros like Sam Altman and Elon Musk like to think they operate on the futuristic fringe. On at least one subject that is trendy in tech circles, however, they are way late: basic ...

The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has completed the world’s first on-chain disbursement of universal basic income (UBI) using a digitally native sovereign bond, USDM1, via the Stellar ...