Given the issue on Friday morning in the House Committee on Appropriations, it wouldn’t have been hard to believe that Andrew Yang had taken a break from his campaign for the New York City Mayor to brief Vermont lawmakers.
However, the person who discussed the universal basic income with the committee was not Yang, but Joyce Manchester, a senior economist in the legislature’s Joint Fiscal Office.
Manchester was asked by Rep. Mary Hooper, D-Montpelier, to investigate the idea that Yang pitched in his 2020 presidential offer of giving every American $ 1,000 a month unconditionally. The theory is that with added […]
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