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The Presidential Candidate Bent on Beating the Robot Apocalypse Will Give Two Americans a $1,000-per-month Basic Income

In what will certainly be a beyond-crowded, chaos bomb of a race to win the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, at least one thing will separate Andrew Yang from the pack—he’ll be the only candidate to have paid two Americans $1,000 a month out of his own pocket, no questions asked, in a bid to illustrate the benefits of basic income policy. Automation is coming for our jobs, the longshot candidate says—not five years from now, not […]

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Andrew Yang wants to win the Democratic nomination for president in 2020 by confronting automation.

Brian Merchant

Apr 19 2018, 3:00pm In what will certainly be a beyond-crowded, chaos bomb of a race to win the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, at least one thing will separate Andrew Yang from the pack—he’ll be the only candidate to have paid two Americans $1,000 a month out of his own pocket, no questions asked, in a bid to illustrate the benefits of basic income policy.Automation is coming for our jobs, the longshot candidate says—not five years from now, not […]

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