As the economic insecurity of a large segment of the country continues without relief (debts, taxes, low wages, health costs, education costs, etc.), some big new ideas (like the Green New Deal) are getting attention.
In my last piece at Counterpunch, “Your Check is in the Mail” (18 April 19), I examined one of these big new ideas: the proposal for a universal basic income (UBI) put forth by presidential candidate Andrew Yang, who proposes to give every US citizen over eighteen years of age $1000 a month. He calls it the Freedom Dividend.
Yang argues that automation and robotics are […]
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