Sam Rankin / Daily Nexus If you’ve been keeping up with the Democratic presidential debates , you may notice a black sheep in candidate Andrew Yang, embodied by his insistence on skipping the tie and his “gimmicky” plan to save our economy. The “ Freedom Dividend ,” as he calls it, would provide every American with a monthly stipend of $1,000.
His plan is rooted in an idea that has, until now, only persisted in small independent experiments conducted in other countries: Universal Basic Income (UBI) . Put simply, it is the concept that the government should provide citizens with […]
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