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The Marshall Islands’ new universal basic income program rests on Compact funding from the United States, blurring the line between sovereignty and dependency.

Image courtesy by QUE.com In an unprecedented move that combines financial innovation with social welfare, the Marshall ...

Basic income pilot programs have distributed over $335 million in economic relief to Americans, according to a coalition of ...

New York is running one of the country's most unusual anti-poverty experiments, quietly dropping a $12,000 digital asset into ...

The Marshall Islands recently used Stellar to pay universal basic income, testing whether crypto can stand in for basic banking ...

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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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jennifer C. Greenfield, University of Denver; Kaitlyn M. Sims, University of Denver; ...