Photo courtesy of Andrew Yang campaign More than a dozen Democrats are running for president, and entrepreneur Andrew Yang is one of them. He’s the first Asian-American Democrat to run for president, and highlights of his platform include giving every American $1,000 a month, and solving the “fake news” problem.
Yang calls his proposed $1,000 monthly payment a “freedom dividend.” He says the concept of a universal basic income isn’t new; he says Thomas Paine supported it during revolutionary times, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., and even conservative economist Milton Friedman, have promoted the idea. It’s already […]
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