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India Runs a $1,000 Test on Ocasio-Cortez Ideas
The Congress Party’s manifesto echos U.S. basic income and jobs guarantee plans. India’s workers have a lot in common with western counterparts.
India gets a taste of universal basic income.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Andrew Yang might not even be aware of it, but the controversial economic ideas espoused by the two young U.S. politicians are being tested in a national election thousands of miles away.
In India’s polls, which start on Thursday and go on for more than five weeks, 900 million voters will decide on whether to give Prime Minister Narendra Modi a second term.