N.H. Family To Receive $1,000 A Month From Presidential Candidate Running On Universal Basic Income

Longshot 2020 presidential hopeful Andrew Yang thinks all Americans 18 and over need a raise, so much so that he’s basing his entire campaign on Universal Basic Income, or the idea that the government should provide a set amount of money to help cover the basics.

This year, Yang is testing his so-called Freedom Dividend with the Fassi family in Goffstown, New Hampshire, who will receive $1,000 a month for a year.

Two years ago, Charles Fassi lost his job as a manager at a company that services chemical dispensing equipment. He says he’d worked there for 13 years.

“And then I was just suddenly let go,” Charles says. “And it felt like it was connected between automation and companies kind of putting less value on human capital.”

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