When Andrew Yang began his presidential campaign in 2017, he was relatively unknown in the mainstream political scene. A young Democrat from Schenectady, New York, he made waves when he proposed some seriously progressive ideas during his short but impactful run in the presidential primaries of 2020— one of those innovative ideas being the concept of UBI, or Universal Basic Income.
Universal Basic Income is a proposed government program that would potentially provide a flat supplemental monthly income (Yang suggested $1000 per month) to every American citizen in the country. With the possibility of being done on a national, […]
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