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Andrew Yang's 'freedom dividend' echoes a 1930s basic income proposal that reshaped Social Security

  • Written by Edwin Amenta, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
Andrew Yang wants to give Americans $1,000 a month.AP Photo/Nati Harnik

Entrepreneur and political novice Andrew Yang is hoping a wild gambit will help him win the Democratic presidential nomination: give 10 American families US$1,000 a month.

The announcement of a test run of his signature universal basic income proposal, which Yang argues is...

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