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Former Senior Innovation Advisor to Hillary Clinton, currently running for Governor of Maryland
The economy continues to develop in the way it is with bounty and more spread, more billionaires, and more struggling members of the working class. I do think that there will be more and more momentum for safety-net programs like basic income.
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Implement a universal basic income
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AI Unverifiable I could not verify this as a real, verbatim Alec Ross quote. The exact wording appears on YouCongress, but that site itself labels the quote "Unverified" and points to the cited YouTube URL. A reliable 2016 Bloomberg transcript shows Ross expressing a similar idea in different words (about an economy producing more billionaires and higher structural unemployment, and about "safety net expansion"), which supports the sentiment but not the exact wording you provided. ([youcongress.org](https://youcongress.org/p/universal-basic-income)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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