Today I’m introducing a bill with Bernie Sanders and Ed Markey to provide $2,000 monthly payments to people during—and for three months after—this crisis. A one-time payment is not enough. politico.com/news/2020/05/0…

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Thank you to the 9 members of Congress who are the newest cosponsors of The Emergency Money for the People Act, and thank you to all the voters who contacted them to encourage them to sign on in support. Keep pushing, everyone! BailOutThePeople.com congress.gov/bill/116th-con…

BREAKING: Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸's Humanity Forward will provide $500/mo for 5 years to 20 New Yorkers living in Hudson, a town with a 19.2% poverty rate. nydailynews.com/news/politics/… #BasicIncome #YangGang

The COVID-19 pandemic endangers the survival of our civilization, and we will not go back to where we were when it started. To counter the coronavirus, we must work together while safeguarding rights and liberties. trib.al/qhVtqsB

If only there were some public fund billionaires could pay into along with everyone else that helps fund our infrastructure, hospitals, and public systems all at once. It could even be a modest % of what they earn every year. We could have an agency collect it and everything

It's a start: "Covid-19 is illustrating that some aspects of a UBI may be more necessary and more workable than previously thought." Scott Santens Diane B. Pagen, LMSW ✍ the UBI guy Alex Howlett James Felton Keith 𓅊 bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

COVID-19 is pushing us to operate at unprecedented scale. The most recipients we’ve ever enrolled in a given month is 5k. We’re on track to do 10x that next month in Kenya – assuming we get the funds to do it. Learn more about our Kenya response: buff.ly/2T3eZvl

Out of the 42,000 recipients we’ve paid so far across the U.S. through our partnership with Providers (formerly Fresh EBT), 91.82% have lost income. Less than half have received a gov’t stimulus check. Read more on our U.S. response: buff.ly/3bEgRRD

Twitter’s Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5 million to build the case for a universal basic income rol.st/2Tr7oHh

Thank you jack and Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 for helping so many struggling Americans with Humanity Forward. Jack Dorsey’s $5 million donation is a great start, who else will step up?

Systemic and structural racism is embedded in our country. We support the people raising their voices peacefully to drive forward progress. To see real change in inequities, we need more than words — we need concrete action. What we’re reading: 1/5

Our data should be ours - and if anyone benefits from its value it should be us.

For those of you who think that we should be getting paid for the use of our data - data that is generating tens of billions of dollars a year for the tech companies and data brokers - we have an announcement you’ll love on Monday. #paythepeople #datadividendforall

Here are some of the Black thinkers and organizers who are building our modern understanding of a Guaranteed Income, or a #basicincome: the big idea of creating an income floor in America. #Juneteenth thread ⬇️

BREAKING: Mayors in Los Angeles, Oakland, Atlanta, Tacoma, Newark, Saint Paul, Jackson, Compton, and Shreveport announced today that they will all join Michael Tubbs in launching universal basic income pilot programs in their cities. forbes.com/sites/rachelsa…

These 11 Mayors Are Really Trying to Get Their Cities’ Residents a Guaranteed Income: A global pandemic that threatens to worsen the country’s already staggering income inequality might be the perfect time. vice.com/en_us/article/…

I’ve been fighting for $2,000 / month for struggling Americans since April. If @senatemajldr and the White House are finally serious about getting relief to working people, we’re ready to work. #EmergencyMoneyForThePeople washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…

“We need to put economic resources directly into [people’s] hands and there’s no reasonable, effective way to do it except to just send them cash, so that they can meet their own needs” – Andrew Yang talks COVID-19 cash relief with GD's CEO and Van Jones: buff.ly/31WEW54

The issue with people making more with unemployment insurance than working isn’t with the people. The issue is with an economy that doesn’t reward many forms of labor work wages that cover the basic necessities. Lift the floor