The Daily Populous

Washington (CNN) Nearly a month after ending his long shot Democratic presidential campaign, Andrew Yang launched on Thursday a nonprofit group focused on making the central ideas of his campaign a reality.

The group, called Humanity Forward, will "endorse and provide resources to political candidates who embrace Universal Basic Income, human-centered capitalism and other aligned policies at every level," according to its website.

A prominent platform in his campaign was his so-called Freedom Dividend, a plan to give every American adult $1,000 a month universal basic income that he argued would alleviate a host of social ills and eradicate poverty. »

Italy says it's had 41 new COVID-19 deaths in just 24 hours.

China reported 143 new cases in the past 24 hours, but most new cases are outside China.

A day after announcing it would shut all schools and universities for two weeks, Italy reported a sharp hike in COVID-19 deaths. »

“We’ll never probably be the same,” Jennifer Christie, Twitter’s head of human resources, told BuzzFeed News of the company’s workplace practices.

“People who were reticent to work remotely will find that they really thrive that way.

The company will continue to pay these people even if they have to work on a reduced schedule, Christie said. »

In the fall, most national polls showed that Ms. Warren was the national pacesetter in the Democratic field.

She invested heavily in the early states, with a ground game that was the envy of her rivals.

When her staff gathered Thursday, many were clad in liberty green, the color her campaign adopted to symbolize its togetherness. »