One Year on Andrew Yang’s UBI: How a N.H. Family Spent Their $12,000

One Year on Andrew Yang’s UBI: How a N.H. Family Spent Their $12,000

Chuck, Janelle and Jodie inside their home in Goffstown. They were selected to receive $12,000 by 2020 candidate Andrew Yang. CREDIT TODD BOOKMAN/NHPR How would an extra $12,000 a year change your lifestyle? Your life? The centerpiece of Andrew Yang’s presidential campaign is something he dubs the Freedom Dividend: a payment of $1,000, every month, to every adult in America.

Outside of some small-scale trials, universal basic incomes like the Freedom Dividend don’t have much proof of concept.

So for 2019, Yang decided to fund a test case out of his own pocket, and selected the Fassi family of Goffstown, N.H.After […]

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