{"id":558770,"date":"2021-06-09T20:51:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T00:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=558770"},"modified":"2021-06-09T20:51:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T00:51:15","slug":"amid-hiring-shortages-ilhan-omar-says-her-next-step-is-implementing-universal-basic-income-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-hiring-shortages-ilhan-omar-says-her-next-step-is-implementing-universal-basic-income-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Hiring Shortages, Ilhan Omar Says Her Next Step Is \u2018Implementing\u2019 Universal Basic Income \u2018Nationwide\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famid-hiring-shortages-ilhan-omar-says-her-next-step-is-implementing-universal-basic-income-nationwide%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=558770&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1231650472-scaled-e1617399573440.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"42.455752212389\">\n<p>Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said Wednesday she will introduce a bill to implement universal basic income (UBI) at some point in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Congress, I\u2019ll be introducing a UBI pilot program to get money in people\u2019s pockets,\u201d Omar tweeted. The congresswoman was responding to a story from the Minnesota Star Tribune about Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey\u2019s new UBI pilot plan.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.090909090909\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is long overdue.<\/p>\n<p>Next step: Implementing UBI nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>This Congress, I\u2019ll be introducing a UBI pilot program to get money in people\u2019s pockets. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HU3KBQx6Sz\">https:\/\/t.co\/HU3KBQx6Sz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ilhan\/status\/1402617319487062019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Frey plans to give about 200 low-income families $500 a month for a span of two years using leftover funds from President Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/10\/american-rescue-plan-joe-biden-whats-in-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Rescue Plan<\/a>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ilhan-omar-ubi-pilot-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is long overdue,\u201d Omar said. \u201cNext step: Implementing UBI nationwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both the Biden administration and former President Donald Trump sent direct stimulus payments to the American people in response to the economic harm wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/03\/21\/rashida-tlaib-universal-relief-treasury-coronavirus-trillion-coins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Some have called<\/a> for longer-term UBI programs as a permanent solution for economic instability.<\/p>\n<p>UBI was first brought into the mainstream by the 2020 presidential campaign of Democrat Andrew Yang, who\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/08\/eric-adams-leads-nyc-mayor-andrew-yang\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now a frontrunner<\/a> in New York City\u2019s mayoral election. Yang proposed sending $1,000 per month to every American permanently. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/04\/joe-biden-jobs-report-unemployment-benefits-jen-psaki\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Psaki Dodges On Whether Unemployment Benefits Are Slowing COVID Recovery)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite a heavy injection of investment into the economy from the Biden administration, the U.S. has still not recovered fully from pandemic restrictions. There is a hiring shortage ongoing in service industries, and some economists and elected officials <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/04\/watchdog-on-wall-street-host-extended-unemployment-benefits-to-blame-for-grim-may-jobs-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have blamed the situation<\/a> on overly-generous unemployment benefits from Biden\u2019s American Rescue Plan.<\/p>\n<p>A number of states have cut off the extra unemployment benefits implemented due to the pandemic, but <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/07\/april-jobs-report-united-states-economy-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jobs reports<\/a> have continued to underwhelm so far during Biden\u2019s tenure in the White House.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said Wednesday she will introduce a bill to implement universal basic income (UBI) at some point in Congress. \u201cThis Congress, I\u2019ll be introducing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279824,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1231650472-scaled-e1617399573440.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Amid Hiring Shortages, Ilhan Omar Says Her Next Step Is \u2018Implementing\u2019 Universal Basic Income \u2018Nationwide\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1231650472-scaled-e1617399573440.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Amid Hiring Shortages, Ilhan Omar Says Her Next Step Is \u2018Implementing\u2019 Universal Basic Income \u2018Nationwide\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}