Andrew Yang says $1,000 a month for every American will create a ‘trickle-up economy’ — here’s what 2020 Democrats say about universal basic income

Andrew Yang says $1,000 a month for every American will create a ‘trickle-up economy’ — here’s what 2020 Democrats say about universal basic income

Presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a businessman who has made a $1,000-a-month “Freedom Dividend” a centerpiece of his platform, argued at Tuesday night’s Democratic debate that his plan would build a “trickle-up economy.”

“It will enable us to do the kind of work that we want to do,” Yang said . “This is the sort of positive vision in response to the fourth industrial revolution that we have to embrace as a party.”

His comments came in response to a question about why his universal basic income proposal was “better” than Sen. Bernie Sanders’s proposal for guaranteed federal jobs . Yang said […]

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