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Chris Hughes

Twitter: @chrishughes
Chris Hughes is an American entrepreneur who co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Andrew McCollum. He was the publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic from 2012 to 2016. As of 2019 Hughes is a co-chair of the Economic Security Project. From Wikipedia

Positions

“The further you get from subsistence, the easier it is to ask fundamental questions like: What do I want, and how do I get it?”
Facebook co-founder
20 February 2018
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/09/who-really-stands-to-win-from-universal-basic-income
“Sometimes the best solution is the simplest: we should provide a guaranteed income of $500 a month for every working adult who makes less than $50,000, paid for by raising taxes on the top one percent.”
20 February 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/20/america-guaranteed-income-chris-hughes
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