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Universal Basic Income
Andrew Yang Is Now Too ‘Outsider’ for Our Two-Party System Leaving the Democratic Party and declaring himself an independent probably won’t help Yang get his ideas enacted, but maybe it will sell more books.
By Ed Kilgore
recode decode
Mar. 19, 2020
Andrew Yang on How Americans Will Likely Be Getting $1,000 Monthly Checks Soon “I think the stimulus packages are on the right track. If anything, I would go bigger,” he tells Kara Swisher.
By Intelligencer Staff
new york city
Feb. 16, 2020
Could Andrew Yang and His Gang Make It in New York’s Mayoral Race? He has teased a potential run, but the road from long-shot presidential candidate to city hall will be hard without more support from progressives.
By Ross Barkan
universal basic income
Oct. 16, 2019
Laura Just Wants to Retire With Dignity — And Visit Her New Great-Granddaughter How Stockton, California’s experiment in universal basic income helped a 68-year-old woman trying to get by on Social Security and a small pension.
By Bliss Broyard
universal basic income
Oct. 16, 2019
Greg Just Tries Not to Think About the Bills and the Debt and His Bad Credit How Stockton, California’s experiment in universal basic income helped a father of four.
By Bliss Broyard
universal basic income
Oct. 16, 2019
Phyllis Knows She’s More Than Her Circumstances How Stockton, California’s experiment in universal basic income helped a family of three facing a cancer diagnosis.
By Bliss Broyard
universal basic income
Oct. 16, 2019
Grace Has Too Many Big Plans to Settle for Just a Job How Stockton, California’s experiment in universal basic income helped an aspiring entrepreneur.
By Bliss Broyard
universal basic income
Oct. 16, 2019
Danielle Has Just One Goal: No Debt, No Debt, No Debt How Stockton, California’s experiment in universal basic income helped a family of four facing $60,000 in debt.
By Bliss Broyard
public policy
Oct. 12, 2019
What Would You do With an Extra $500 a Month? Five people open their lives (and their accounts) in a test run of universal basic income.
By Bliss Broyard
Yang Gang Lights Up L.A. Yang may not be an entirely viable candidate just yet, but his style is currently getting as much attention as his substance.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 3, 2019
Andrew Yang Says the Media Is Ignoring Him. Does He Have a Point? Maybe Yang and others are getting less media coverage than their poll rankings would indicate. But they don’t have plausible paths to the nomination.
By Ed Kilgore
What Andrew Yang Gets Wrong (and Right) About Robots Automation isn’t going to take all our jobs. But it could make them less time-consuming, if we let it.
By Eric Levitz
Marianne Williamson Is a Lefty With Soul At a time when progressivism is more influential than ever in the Democratic Party, this spiritual guru is the most progressive of the 23 candidates.
By Ed Kilgore
just asking questions
Mar. 18, 2019
Andrew Yang Is More Than a Meme The Democratic presidential contender may be America’s foremost champion of universal basic income. Oh, and he’s huge on the internet.
By Benjamin Hart
vision 2020
Mar. 18, 2019
George McGovern Proposed a Universal Basic Income. It Didn’t Go Well for Him. Long-shot presidential candidate Andrew Yang is proposing to mail every American a monthly $1,000 check. George McGovern tried that in the ‘70s.
By Ed Kilgore
The Anti-Poverty Experiment That Could Fix America’s Broken Welfare System Advocates on both the left and the right are talking about universal basic income — and its first big test is just about to begin.
By Annie Lowrey