{"id":86607,"date":"2019-01-11T18:42:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T02:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-democrat-running-for-president-in-2020-is-testing-a-basic-income-proposal"},"modified":"2019-01-11T18:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T02:42:21","slug":"a-democrat-running-for-president-in-2020-is-testing-a-basic-income-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-democrat-running-for-president-in-2020-is-testing-a-basic-income-proposal","title":{"rendered":"A Democrat running for president in 2020 is testing a basic income proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-democrat-running-for-president-in-2020-is-testing-a-basic-income-proposal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By giving $1,000 per month to a family.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li> Democrat Andrew Yang is running for president of the United States. His long-shot campaign is centered on providing a universal basic income for Americans. <\/li>\n<li> Yang wants to help Americans who are losing jobs to automation, and he believes a basic income could create 4.5 million new jobs. <\/li>\n<li> The core of Yang\u2019s campaign is the Freedom Dividend, which would give out $1,000 per month to every American between the ages of 18 and 64. <\/li>\n<li> Yang is testing the dividend this year in Goffstown, New Hampshire, where one family will receive $1,000 a month for a year. The family got the first payment on New Year\u2019s Eve. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a 43-year-old entrepreneur-turned-politician, is <a href=https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/andrew-yang-presidential-platform-universal-basic-income-2018-4 > focusing his campaign<\/a> on helping Americans who are losing jobs to automation.<\/p>\n<p>Yang wants all Americans to benefit from a universal basic income, which would provide regular cash payments to people regardless of their employment status. Although he is a long-shot candidate, the Democrat said he believes so strongly in the need for a basic income that he is dedicated to running.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/democrat-andrew-yang-testing-basic-income-plan-in-new-hampshire-2019-1\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/democrat-andrew-yang-testing...2019&#45;1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By giving $1,000 per month to a family. Democrat Andrew Yang is running for president of the United States. His long-shot campaign is centered on providing a universal basic income for Americans. Yang wants to help Americans who are losing jobs to automation, and he believes a basic income could create 4.5 million new jobs. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1878,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-employment","category-geopolitics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86607","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}