Opinion contributor
Andrew Yang focused his surprisingly successful long-shot presidential campaign on a seemingly radical policy idea: universal basic income, or giving people monthly cash payments with no strings attached. He has dropped out of the 2020 race, but the push for UBI will live on.
While the roots of this concept run through our country’s history, with supporters who include Thomas Paine and Martin Luther King Jr. , Yang is rightly credited with moving the idea of unconditional cash out of think tanks and academia and into living rooms across the country.It may sound Utopian at first, but the reality […]
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