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Here's How 1 New Hampshire Family Spent Their Andrew Yang 'Freedom Dividend'

The centerpiece of Andrew Yang’s campaign for the Democratic nomination is what he calls the Freedom Dividend: a payment of $1,000 every month to every adult in America — no strings attached.

To show what it could yield, Yang selected a New Hampshire family to receive a Freedom Dividend during 2019.

Now that the experiment is over, New Hampshire Public Radio’s Todd Bookman (@toddbookman)visited the family to find out what they did with the money.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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