Why the debate over the legality of Andrew Yang’s $120,000 UBI pilot doesn’t really matter

Why the debate over the legality of Andrew Yang’s $120,000 UBI pilot doesn’t really matter

Andrew Yang following the second Democratic presidential debate in July 2019. Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang promised to spice up September’s primary debate by doing “something no presidential candidate has ever done before in history” live on television.

He kept that promise by announcing in his opening statement that he would give away $1,000 a month — $120,000 a year — to 10 randomly selected people as part of a pilot program for his universal basic income proposal. It’s a ploy that is in equal parts a self-serving voter recruitment push, an eye-catching pilot for his signature universal basic income […]

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