The novel coronavirus pandemic introduced many new ideas to the world, including quarantine, Zoom University, rapidly developed vaccines, a spike in social media activism, and a fiery election cycle that destabilized the United States in unforeseen ways. However, COVID-19 also brought a much older idea back to the political scene: universal basic income. The Freedom Dividend , for example, gained national attention as a signature policy position of 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang. Though Yang only received a small portion of the American vote, his candidacy reignited this decades-old idea supported by prominent social leaders like Martin Luther […]
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