social welfare policy
Does universal basic income actually work?: Conditional pragmatists
The number One thousand dollars a month. 258 million American adults. $3.1 trillion a year. The entire federal discretionary budget in 2024 was $1.7 trillion. Total mandatory spending — Social Security, Medicare, everything — was $3.9 trillion.... If machines do most of the work, what do the humans do?: UBI advocates
The floor should hold In 2019, Andrew Yang stood on a debate stage and said what every other candidate was thinking: the trucks are going to drive themselves. Three and a half million jobs. He proposed $1,000 per month, no strings. The other candidates changed the subject....