St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter speaks with one of the 150 participants in the city’s basic-income pilot program, which was one of the first in the country. Residents who qualified were randomly selected ...

What happens when you give people free money with no strings attached? The question is of enormous importance to America’s safety-net policy, given widespread proposals for a “universal basic income” ...

A Bitcoin (BTC) advocate based in Canada has “Zapped” 600 people a total of 300 satoshis ($0.09, or 0.000003 BTC) each in a Bitcoin-inspired social media experiment. To date, marketing executive ...

Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Richard Branson and other tech titans are promoting the idea of universal basic income as a way to help citizens weather job disruptions caused by emerging technologies.

What happens when you give people free money with no strings attached? The question is of enormous importance to America’s safety-net policy, given widespread proposals for a “universal basic income” ...

A new study looking into the feasibility of universal basic income suggests that money would be largely spent on essentials such as food, rent and transportation. ABC News ...

An unprecedented experiment has been going on for years in Kenya, and this week we've gotten the first results. A U.S.-based charity called GiveDirectly has been providing thousands of villagers ...

WSJ's Jason Bellini explores the trends, technologies, ideas and challenges that are headed our way in this video series. In each episode, we visit the places, and meet the people who can help us to ...