What’s a universal basic income doing in Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal”?

What’s a universal basic income doing in Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal”?

In 2007, the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote a story calling for a “Green New Deal.” Friedman explained that he no longer believed that there was one silver-bullet program that would solve climate change. Rather, just as a variety of programs were part of former US president Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal” for economic revitalization in the 1930s, so it would take a variety of investments in environmentally-friendly technologies to help stabilize the climate.

Friedman almost certainly could not have imagined that some day politicians would propose a Green New Deal that might include a universal basic income.

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