‘Data is the new oil’: Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang proposes getting paid for data usage

'Data is the new oil': Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang proposes getting paid for data usage

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang joined ABC7 News’ Kristen Sze to discuss discuss data compensation and how the novel coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement impacts universal basic income.

Yang campaigned for the idea that the government would send monthly checks to every American adult, no strings attached. Most Americans received stimulus checks amid the pandemic and Yang believes more relief payments are the "direction we need to go."

"74% of Americans think we need emergency cash relief, because the pandemic, unfortunately, is not fading," Yang said. "And Kamala Harris is championing a bill in […]

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