BREAKING NEWS – Houston, Texas – Presidential candidate Andrew Yang plans to give more Americans $1,000 a month as he broadens a test of his signature campaign proposal. The entrepreneur will give 10 selected families the monthly sum, his announced during Thursday’s Democratic primary debate. He supports universal basic income, and wants to give every American what he calls a “freedom dividend.” Yang’s announcement was met with cheers from the debate crowd – and laughter and disbelief among his rivals on stage. “In America today, everything revolves around the all-mighty dollar,” he said in his opening statement at the debate. “It’s time to trust ourselves more than our politicians. That’s why I’m going to do something unprecedented tonight. My campaign will now give a Freedom Dividend of $1,000 a month for an entire year to 10 American families. But only under three conditions. One, you must be a registered democrat. Two, you must promise you’ll support my causes whether you agree with them or not. And three, you had to have donated $24,000 to my campaign.” The moderators then cut him off after he stated, “And if you order in the next ten minutes…”
