The Impact of Universal Basic Income Programs
Maddie Dietl
· Follow 5 min read·6 hours agoIn the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election, Democratic candidate Andrew Yang based his platform around one central idea: if elected, he would entitle every American adult to a “Freedom Dividend” [1]. His plan was to deposit 1,000 dollars into the bank account of US citizens every month, tax free, no strings attached. This is an example of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) program. Evidently this program was not enough to get Yang elected, but it did raise some questions about […]
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