Yang’s Wilde Defense of Universal Basic Income

Yang’s Wilde Defense of Universal Basic Income

If you know anything about Andrew Yang, it’s probably that he wants to give every American a $1000 per month freedom dividend. Yang, an Asian-American former tech executive, open admits that his ‘freedom dividend’ is a branded universal basic income under a new name because it polls better with the public. But how Yang has come to center his campaign around a universal basic income deserves note.

Those of you who know me likely know that I’m a big fan of universal basic income (UBI). I wrote my master’s thesis on it, and I genuinely think it’s a 21st century […]

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