Harriet tubman, who helped more than 300 slaves find freedom through the underground railroad, will be the new face of the 20 dollar bill. The announcement about the 20 dollar bell rede sign was made on april 20, sixteenth. Tubman will be the first woman featured on the front of us. Andrew jackson would remain on one side of the ball and harriet tubman would be on the other.
What’s the point of money? The answer might seem obvious: we need it to get paid for our work and to buy the things we need. But there’s also a deeper way to look at the role of money in our lives. This week in our Money 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite 2020 episode for an anthropologist’s take on the origin story of money. What if the cash and coins we carry are not just tools for transactions, but manifestations of human relationships?
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