Category: Basic Income

After the Democratic debate in South Carolina, fans of former presidential contender Andrew Yang have taken to social media to lament the absence of the entrepreneur who dropped out of the primary race earlier this month.

During his run in the primaries, Yang generated a lot of attention especially among young voters, liberal Democrats, and libertarians, many of whom were attracted to his plan to give every adult American $1,000 a month as a universal basic income, in what he called the "Freedom Dividend."

Last September, the entrepreneur tweeted a video of himself crowd surfing at the AAPI Democratic Presidential […]

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KGO) — Although tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang has dropped out of the Democratic race for president, his main platform of universal basic income lives on.

Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Cupertino) represents a large part of the South Bay, the heart of the Silicon Valley.

He just introduced AB 2712, proposing a universal basic income for Californians.Perhaps the bill is no surprise, given Low was the national co-chair of Andrew Yang’s presidential campaign, which was based on the idea of giving every American adult $1,000 a month.Low introduced Yang when the candidate was here last month, when he was still in […]

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A charity implemented a massive economic stimulus package for rural Kenya: 10,500 households received $1,000 each. A study examined the effects. The result: the entire population benefited from the package and every dollar invested boosted the economy by 2.6 dollars. We can learn a lot from this.

Economists founded the organisation „GiveDirectly“eleven years ago. They wanted to help the population in particularly poor regions of Africa and at the same time examine the economic effects of their activities. The idea is simple: A selected group of people receives money. Just like that and without conditions. The people were simply […]

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Universal basic income (UBI), also known as basic income, is a model that provides all citizens of a country a given sum of money, regardless of their employment status or income. UBI aims to prevent or reduce poverty and increase quality among citizens.

According to the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), there are five defining characteristics of basic income:

> Periodic: distributed in regular payments Cash payment: distributed as funds, not coupons or vouchers Individual: paid to every adult citizen, not just every household Universal: it is paid to all citizens, regardless of their situation Unconditional: there is no requirement […]

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YASH RAJWANSHI – FEBRUARY 25TH, 2020

EDITORS: ALEX CHENG & ANDREAS MAASS

Background Andrew Yang, a former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, started his campaign with the proposal of “the Freedom Dividend.” This policy, which guaranteed every American adult a basic income of $1,000 every month, gained traction with the general public quickly . Yang’s flagship proposal is more commonly referred to as universal basic income (UBI), or just basic income. As Yang describes it, UBI is a “ type of social security that guarantees a certain amount of money to every citizen within a given governed population, without having to […]

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The constant effort to make ends meet can lead to mistakes in judgment

The nature of poverty in rich countries has changed. The sort of material deprivation common in developing nations is effectively a thing of the past. But millions of Americans lead precarious lives — always on the verge of getting evicted, not knowing where their next meal will come from, or unsure how they’ll be able to generate an income. This precarious existence has replaced abject deprivation as the fundamental market of poverty.

Many believe such lifestyles are the result of low effort or poor individual choices. If people […]

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Janet Ybarra Democrat Former Washington Journalist Contributor on The Bipartisan Press Entrepreneur and quixotic presidential candidate Andrew Yang may have finally exited the race, but one of his top supporters in California has laid groundwork to very much keep Yang’s signature cause very much alive.California state Assemblymember Evan Low, who served as a co-chair of Yang’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, has introduced legislation which would […]

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