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Matthew Yglesias: Can Universal Basic Income Solve the City’s Economic Challenges?
You Decide with Errol Louis
English - January 06, 2021 09:00 - 53 minutes - 37.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsPolitics News Society & Culture ny1 nyc culture errol errollouis newyork newyorkcity politics youdecidewitherrollouis Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Journalist Matthew Yglesias, a Vox co-founder and editor of the newsletter Slow Boring, joined Errol Louis to discuss different ideas to help solve New York City’s budget hole and economic crisis. That includes potential mayoral candidate Andrew Yang’s idea of universal basic income, the debate over raising taxes on wealthy New Yorkers and the fight over development projects. He also talked about his decision to launch his own newsletter on Substack and weighed in on the future of media and journalism, as local news continues to take hits all over the nation.
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