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Scott Santens

Unconditional/Universal Basic Income (UBI) advocate with a crowdfunded basic income; Founder and President of ITSA Foundation, Author of Let There Be Money; Editor of BasicIncomeToday.com

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A Visual History of the #YangMediaBlackout

A historical record of mainstream media exclusions of Andrew Yang (Last Updated: 2/12/2020) Back in June of 2019, I tweeted about the latest egregious example of MSNBC excluding Democratic Presidential candidate Andrew Yang [https://www.yang2020.com/] from their ongoing coverage of the 2020 Presidential candidates. There had

A Visual History of the #YangMediaBlackout
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New bill introduced in New York State Senate to fund a 2-year conditional cash transfer pilot labeled as a UBI pilot

This week a bill was introduced in the New York State Senate [https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s6696] by Senator Kevin S. Parker to fund a “universal basic income pilot program.” Bill S6696 [https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/s6696] proposes to begin a pilot no later

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Goodbye, Medium

My last article [https://medium.com/basic-income/there-is-no-policy-proposal-more-progressive-than-andrew-yangs-freedom-dividend-72d3850a6245] wasn’t considered good enough to be curated into any topic category [https://medium.com/topics], despite being viewed over 20,000 times and having over 5,000 applause. It even included cover art that was an incredible illustration inspired by and

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The Story of George McGovern's Failure to Guarantee Every American $1,000

It’s presidential debate season time here in 2019, and in doing my research for an editorial I wrote for Basic Income Today about Andrew Yang’s first debate appearance [https://basicincometoday.com/editorial-andrew-yang-makes-u-s-history-by-introducing-the-idea-of-universal-basic-income-onto-the-national-debate-stage/5315] , I gained some fascinating new insights about what happened back in 1972, which until now

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Deradicalizing the Radicalized: How Andrew Yang's Campaign for Humanity First is Revealing How to Heal the Nation

You need to read this post [https://www.reddit.com/r/YangForPresidentHQ/comments/chx1s4/andrew_yang_and_his_campaign_is_what_ended_up] about how Andrew Yang's UBI-centered campaign [https://www.yang2020.com/] deradicalized someone that so many others just want to either write off or further radicalize.

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There is No Policy Proposal by Any 2020 Presidential Candidate More Progressive than Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend

Primary season has begun and as Trump marches toward a possible second term, a list of Democrats over 20-candidates-long is vying for the honor of being the one who prevents that from happening. One of those candidates, Andrew Yang [https://www.yang2020.com], has proposed a universal basic income [http:

There is No Policy Proposal by Any 2020 Presidential Candidate More Progressive than Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend
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Andrew Yang makes U.S. history by introducing the idea of universal basic income onto the national debate stage

On June 27, history was made when during the second night of the first U.S. Presidential debate for the 2020 Democratic Primary, Andrew Yang explained on the national debate stage the importance of a universal basic income floor for all citizens of $1,000 per month, rich or poor,

Andrew Yang makes U.S. history by introducing the idea of universal basic income onto the national debate stage
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‘Universal Basic Income Doesn’t Work’ Says New Prime Example of Fake News

Or How to Spot Disinformation in a World of Propaganda In April 2019, a report titled “Universal Basic Income: A Union Perspective [http://www.world-psi.org/sites/default/files/documents/research/en_ubi_full_report_2019.pdf] ” was paid for and published by Public Services International (PSI), a global trade

‘Universal Basic Income Doesn’t Work’ Says New Prime Example of Fake News
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I am the Editor-in-Chief of a newly launched UBI news site - Basic Income Today

Basic Income Today [https://basicincometoday.com/] is a new UBI website that's been created to provide updated news and information about Unconditional Basic Income with the goal of furthering the discussion about how UBI impacts purpose, identity, and dignity. Content will be curated from general news and will

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My Forbes Interview About Universal Basic Income

This interview of mine with Kavi Guppta took place in 2016 and was originally published on September 22, 2016 on Forbes with the title "Basic Income Might Be The Answer To Society's Productivity Crisis" [https://www.forbes.com/sites/kaviguppta/2016/09/22/basic-income-might-be-the-answer-to-societys-productivity-crisis/] . I have