{"id":109442,"date":"2020-07-02T17:04:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T00:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/why-the-virus-stimulus-is-renewing-the-universal-basic-income-debate-wsj"},"modified":"2020-07-02T17:04:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T00:04:32","slug":"why-the-virus-stimulus-is-renewing-the-universal-basic-income-debate-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/why-the-virus-stimulus-is-renewing-the-universal-basic-income-debate-wsj","title":{"rendered":"Why the Virus Stimulus Is Renewing the Universal Basic Income Debate | WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QzGjaoy7Idg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Do the stimulus checks being sent to individuals to help in the coronavirus crisis count as a form of universal basic income? Andrew Yang thinks so. But, as WSJ\u2019s Jason Bellini reports, others believe the intention behind UBI is misguided. Photo: Tom Brenner\/Getty Images.<\/p>\n<p>More from the Wall Street Journal:<br \/> Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/WSJ.com\">WSJ.com<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\">http:\/\/www.wsj.com<\/a><br \/> Visit the WSJ Video Center: <a href=\"https:\/\/wsj.com\/video\">https:\/\/wsj.com\/video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/wsj\/videos\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/wsj\/videos\/<\/a><br \/> On Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJ\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJ<\/a><br \/> On Snapchat: <a href=\"https:\/\/on.wsj.com\/2ratjSM\">https:\/\/on.wsj.com\/2ratjSM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#WSJ #UBI #Coronavirus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do the stimulus checks being sent to individuals to help in the coronavirus crisis count as a form of universal basic income? Andrew Yang thinks so. But, as WSJ\u2019s Jason Bellini reports, others believe the intention behind UBI is misguided. Photo: Tom Brenner\/Getty Images. More from the Wall Street Journal: Visit WSJ.com: http:\/\/www.wsj.com Visit the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}