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 ...
Coinbase is funding $12,000 in USDC to low-income New Yorkers, mirroring universal basic income experiments, through GiveDirectly's new pilot program.
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, ...