skinny.

Latest / Solving America's Problems

Free Lunch? AI, UBI, and Who's Really Paying the Tab (Full)

A third of American workers are one missed paycheck from crisis, and AI is repricing the assumption that human labor has permanent value faster than any safety net can respond. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley open their UBI series by naming what dissolved the American Dream contract — and pointing to three real experiments that prove giving people a floor doesn't produce laziness: the Alaska Permanent Fund, the Cherokee Nation dividend, and the 2021 Child Tax Credit. The conversation runs the full length — what $1,500 and $15,000 a month actually change in a person's life, why crime…

The skinny

The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.