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You Have Been Drafted Into the Great Coronavirus War
GREETING: You are hereby ordered to report for induction into the ARMED FORCES of the UNITED STATES. War has arrived, and over 200,000 of us could die [https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/29/823517467/fauci-estimates-that-100-000-to-200-000-americans-could-die-from-the-coronavirus] . This war, unlike all previous wars, is a war against a
Unconditional Pandemic Security
What I'm about to tell you I only understand because I have a basic income already [https://www.vox.com/first-person/2016/11/14/13513066/universal-basic-income-crowdfund] and it's hugely important for everyone to understand right now in this moment of health and economic crisis. $1 ≠ $1
Should We Provide Emergency Universal Basic Income to Everyone or Just Those Who Need It?
The question of means-testing versus full universality in a time of crisis What’s happened in just the past few days with mind-boggling speed is the near certainty now that in the very near future, the United States is going to start cutting checks for some as yet undefined value
Introducing Andrew Yang
I wrote this short speech on January 30 to introduce Andrew Yang at his town hall in Dubuque, Iowa. Photo by Marc Klockow [http://klocko.co] of my delivering it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're Yang Gang, there's a good chance you know who I am, and if
The Top Ten Andrew Yang Videos of 2019
As determined by over 350 of the Yang Gang via ranked-choice voting In the final week of 2019, I asked the supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang (otherwise known as the Yang Gang) to let me know their favorite videos of the year with or about him, and to
11 Nobel Prize Winners Who Have Endorsed Universal Basic Income (UBI)
Nine winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and two Nobel Peace Prize winners The idea of an unconditional basic income (UBI) [http://www.scottsantens.com/basic-income-faq] floor where everyone starts with the same minimum amount of money as everyone else each month as an economic right of
A Visual History of the #YangMediaBlackout
A historical record of mainstream media exclusions of Andrew Yang (Last Updated: 2/12/2020) Back in June of 2019, I tweeted about the latest egregious example of MSNBC excluding Democratic Presidential candidate Andrew Yang [https://www.yang2020.com/] from their ongoing coverage of the 2020 Presidential candidates. There had
New bill introduced in New York State Senate to fund a 2-year conditional cash transfer pilot labeled as a UBI pilot
This week a bill was introduced in the New York State Senate [https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s6696] by Senator Kevin S. Parker to fund a “universal basic income pilot program.” Bill S6696 [https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/s6696] proposes to begin a pilot no later
Goodbye, Medium
My last article [https://medium.com/basic-income/there-is-no-policy-proposal-more-progressive-than-andrew-yangs-freedom-dividend-72d3850a6245] wasn’t considered good enough to be curated into any topic category [https://medium.com/topics], despite being viewed over 20,000 times and having over 5,000 applause. It even included cover art that was an incredible illustration inspired by and
The Story of George McGovern's Failure to Guarantee Every American $1,000
It’s presidential debate season time here in 2019, and in doing my research for an editorial I wrote for Basic Income Today about Andrew Yang’s first debate appearance [https://basicincometoday.com/editorial-andrew-yang-makes-u-s-history-by-introducing-the-idea-of-universal-basic-income-onto-the-national-debate-stage/5315] , I gained some fascinating new insights about what happened back in 1972, which until now