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U.S. Representative for California's 17th congressional district
At a time when machines are replacing low- and middle-income workers, we want there to be an incentive to get people to a basic income.
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Implement a universal basic income
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AI Unverifiable I found the exact sentence only on YouCongress, which attributes it to the Mercury News URL but itself labels the quote "AI Unverifiable," and I could not access the original Mercury News page from here. Later reliable coverage shows Khanna favoring a work-tied earned-income-credit approach rather than unconditional UBI, but I did not find this exact wording in any accessible reliable source. ([youcongress.org](https://youcongress.org/p/universal-basic-income)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Unverifiable Source URL (mercurynews.com) is blocked from WebFetch access, and web.archive.org is also blocked, so I cannot directly verify the quote text against the primary source. Notes from secondary research: - Quote is from 2016; Ro Khanna's consistent public position (2016-2026) has been to oppose a traditional UBI in favor of an EITC expansion (GAIN Act / Brown-Khanna bill). Reading the quote in that context — "we want there to be an incentive to get people to a basic income" — it plausibly refers to using work-based incentives (EITC) as a path to a basic-income-like floor, rather than endorsing UBI as the statement "Implement a universal basic income" would require. - The associated vote is "for" on UBI, but Khanna's stated position is actually against UBI. A human reviewer should consider whether the quote belongs on this statement at all, or whether the vote should be re-examined. - As recently as April 2026, Khanna continued to reference EITC-style targeted credits and a $3,000 check proposal with Sen. Sanders, not UBI. Because the primary source cannot be retrieved, I am leaving this as ai_unverifiable rather than verifying or reclassifying. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2mo ago
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