Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has been busy on the campaign trail promoting his campaign, which centers around a universal basic income (UBI) to combat job losses due to automation that he believes will continue to hollow out the American economy. During a speech and Q&A in Muscatine, Iowa — available on YouTube — Yang was met with one attendee that suggested his approach is “missing the boat” and said the focus should instead be on retraining Americans for jobs of the future instead of focusing on implementing a UBI.
Yang agreed that education and retraining are important but posed […]
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