Is the COVID-19 Pandemic Making a Case for Universal Basic Income?

Is the COVID-19 Pandemic Making a Case for Universal Basic Income?

Join us for a virtual discussion and Q&A with Dionne Pohler

Hosted by the Center for Global Work and Employment

Register at: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/UBI_DPohler Program Background Andrew Yang, a 2020 Democratic primary candidate, is the most prominent recent advocate of a universal basic income. Yang’s signature campaign policy, the Freedom Dividend, was a $1,000 monthly UBI to be distributed to all American adults. The policy rationale for Yang’s UBI proposal was about insuring American workers against job loss caused by technological shifts. His proposal now seems prescient for an entirely different reason, as UBI is receiving […]

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