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Podcast: Gadgets & Tech – Spoken Edition
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We Might Finally Get a Basic Income
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:03:07
Publish Date: 2020-05-19 05:10:39
Description: Joined by Senators Bernie Sanders and Ed Markey, Kamala Harris is pushing new legislation that would provide up to $2,000 a month for every U.S. resident. There’s another term for that: a universal basic income. While UBIs are usually associated with the magical thinking that we’ll at some point reach a fully-automated post-work economy, the closest America came to instituting one was arguably through vast expansions of unemployment benefits during the Great Depression.
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