Andrew Yang May Be Out, but His Basic Income Idea Is Getting a Second Look

Andrew Yang May Be Out, but His Basic Income Idea Is Getting a Second Look

Christopher Lee for The New York Times

For more than two years, Andrew Yang traveled the country as a presidential candidate trying to convince voters that a crisis was coming. The economy was going to evolve, he warned, jobs would be automated away in droves and many Americans were going to find themselves at home without a paycheck.

“And now,” Mr. Yang observed from inside his family’s weekend home in upstate New York, “we’ve all been sent home at once.”To be sure, fear of an impending global pandemic resulting from a novel coronavirus was not the reason Mr. Yang spent months […]

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