Yang Is Gone But We Should Still Talk About Giving People Free Money

Yang Is Gone But We Should Still Talk About Giving People Free Money

Andrew Yang ended his long-shot yet surprisingly robust campaign on Tuesday night after winning exactly zero delegates in Iowa, and looking down a similar fate in New Hampshire. As he dropped out, he emphasized that Universal Basic Income, his signature proposal of giving every American $1,000 per month, was his campaign’s biggest takeaway.

“That will be the most important legacy,” Yang said in an interview with BuzzFeed . “If we accelerate the end of poverty in this country—which I believe we already have, because I don’t think this idea is going to go away.”

It’s true that Yang brought the idea […]

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