Andrew Yang at Washington Square Park, NYC May 14th
Today, in 2019, we know the truth: automation is shredding swaths of human jobs, including at our drug stores, our clothing stores, and our banks.
National Priorities?
Is it lost on anyone that in a city where we say we want to end inequality, that all the kids who sell candy on the train are black, while almost none of the 895 kids who got into Stuyvesant High School this year were black? That's really, really bad.
Explaining U.S. Social Safety Net to Scandinavians is Utterly Embarrassing
UBI, and candidates who are committed to making it the law are where we need to be investing our energy, not in charity, tweaking failed Welfare "to Work" policies state to state, not in passing out sandwiches and Thanksgiving turkeys.
Other People’s Hunger
We shouldn’t use a life threatening crisis like poverty as the basis for a public art project without any responsible discussion or call to action of how to solve it.
Scarcity, Misdeeds, and Violence? Or Universal Basic Income?
Andrew Yang, Presidential candidate writes, "A culture of scarcity is a culture of negativity. They attack each other. Tribalism and divisiveness go way up."
Disastrous Homelessness Policy Makes Us All Crazy
This month, we read that a woman set another woman afire at a shelter in Queens, New York after an argument. In 2016, a man was practically beheaded at a Manhattan shelter after an argument gone bad. A DHS spokesperson said of the fire starter, “this unconscionable act goes against everything we stand for.” This [...]
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families federal block grants
What used to be the centerpiece of U.S. social welfare policy, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, however imperfect it was, has become a slush fund for states to plug their own budget gaps instead of an anti-poverty program.
Business Insider publishes an excerpt of The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
Success in America has nothing to do with hard work.
Stuff that Makes No Sense: United States
What if legislators LEGISLATED that the dollar amount of a Food Stamp monthly benefit match the amount the USDA itself says is needed to buy the amount and quality of food that keeps a person alive?
April 5th NYC event with Andrew Yang
Come meet Andrew Yang and share your ideas about how to make Universal Basic Income a reality!