What started off as a punchline grew to be taken seriously now in Andrew Yang's most well-known policy, universal basic income. Americans who have received $600 a week in unemployment benefits rely on it just to keep them afloat amid an economic catastrophe. The platform endorses the relief.
Police reform
For criminal justice after the horrible George Floyd murder, the task force and the platform seek the House legislation banning chokeholds and withholding police immunity.
ImmigrationThe platform vows to undo Trump's hateful practices of separating families and putting children in cages and decries the bluster about a wall. It calls for an end to the rhetoric of persecution of immigrants, legal and undocumented.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez will attend the Convention in person. But it is critical that Biden regularly return to Wisconsin before the election to show that he values the state and explain why the proposals in the platform are so important.
Robert Weiner is a former Clinton White House spokesman, chief of staff of the House Aging Committee, and spokesman for the House Government Operations, Judiciary and Narcotics committees. Ben Lasky is a senior policy analyst at Robert Weiner Associates and Solutions for Change.
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