Neither a windfall nor a social remedy, Andrew Yang's proposed Freedom Dividend amounts to a small, slow cash infusion that fails to address a single one of the political, economic, or cultural inequities that already exist. lisaxmiller writes
Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Andrew Yang, tech entrepreneur and political newbie, has always been a long-shot Democratic presidential nominee. Yet, against all odds, he has outlasted 17 other candidates and is headed to the New Hampshire primary with money in the bank and a coveted spot on the most recent debate stage under his belt. He has garnered attention for his big ideas — especially his spin on the old notion of a universal basic income — and is especially popular with young men.
In the lingua franca of the Yang campaign, caregiver is synonymous with woman, and the Freedom Dividend, Yang’s Big Idea — a thousand dollars a month to every American over 18 — is the allowance that permits women to leave the workforce and do the valuable work of looking after home and hearth instead. Or this is the implication, asserted constantly in all of Yang’s messaging. The Freedom Dividend isn’t nefarious, exactly.
To underscore the point, Yang typically puts his own traditional marriage front and center as exemplary. He praises his wife, Evelyn, publicly and extravagantly, for her devotion to the Yang family unit. “I’d like to talk about my wife,” he says in every stump speech, “who is home with our two children, one of whom is autistic.” Just before Christmas, the campaign released its “Caregiver” ad, a 30-second spot narrated by Evelyn.
The Freedom Dividend also does nothing to address the real problem of women and work, which is that women still earn 77 cents to every male dollar, and that’s a lifetime average. Nothing limits a woman’s earning power more than having a baby, after which the wage gap increases exponentially and never recovers. Most women I know don’t mind working. Some of us actually like to work at jobs outside the home and are good at the non-domestic work we do.
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