“Says about universal basic income, "Thomas Paine was for it at our founding ... Martin Luther King, champion in the ‘60s, called it a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans… It passed the U.S. House of Representatives twice in 1971.”
Andrew Yang
Democratic presidential candidate. Iowa Streak Fry speech. Claim dated 21 Sep 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
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Andrew Yang (Democratic presidential candidate) made this claim around 21 September 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 October 2019, 25 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Andrew Yang has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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