Given the subject matter Friday morning in the House Committee on Appropriations, it wouldn’t have been a stretch to believe that Andrew Yang had taken a break from his campaign for New York City mayor to brief Vermont lawmakers.
However, the person discussing universal basic income with the committee wasn’t Yang, but Joyce Manchester, a senior economist in the Legislature’s Joint Fiscal Office.
Manchester was asked by Rep. Mary Hooper, D-Montpelier, to study the idea — popularized by Yang during his 2020 presidential bid — of giving every American $1,000 per month with no strings attached. The theory is that, with […]
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