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‘$1,000 per person should be the baseline’: Andrew Yang on direct payments during coronavirus

Universal basic income, the former Democratic presidential candidate’s signature issue, has gone mainstream but he believes current proposals do not go far enough

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When Andrew Yang ran for president, he wanted to initiate a national discussion about giving Americans direct cash payments. Now, to a degree, that discussion is happening. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration is looking to send one-off payments of as much as $1,200 to taxpayers, as part of a $1tn economic stabilization proposal.

Yang doesn’t think it’s enough.

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Source: US Politics - theguardian.com


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