YASH RAJWANSHI – FEBRUARY 25TH, 2020
EDITORS: ALEX CHENG & ANDREAS MAASS
Background Andrew Yang, a former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, started his campaign with the proposal of “the Freedom Dividend.” This policy, which guaranteed every American adult a basic income of $1,000 every month, gained traction with the general public quickly . Yang’s flagship proposal is more commonly referred to as universal basic income (UBI), or just basic income. As Yang describes it, UBI is a “ type of social security that guarantees a certain amount of money to every citizen within a given governed population, without having to […]
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