{"id":204239,"date":"2026-04-20T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/house-candidate-unveils-plan-to-pay-americans-who-face-ai-job-displacement\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:55:17","slug":"house-candidate-unveils-plan-to-pay-americans-who-face-ai-job-displacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/house-candidate-unveils-plan-to-pay-americans-who-face-ai-job-displacement\/","title":{"rendered":"House Candidate Unveils Plan to Pay Americans Who Face AI Job Displacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/house-candidate-unveils-plan-to-pay-americans-who-face-ai-job-displacement-2000748609\">House Candidate Unveils Plan to Pay Americans Who Face AI Job Displacement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/house-candidate-unveils-plan-to-pay-americans-who-face-ai-job-displacement-2000748609\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/house-candidate-unveils-plan-to-pay-americans-who-face-ai-job-displacement-2000748609<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-20 17:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"gizmodo.com\">gizmodo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Congressional candidate Alex Bores proposes an AI Dividend program that would provide direct payments to Americans whose jobs are replaced by artificial intelligence (AI), aiming to help them adapt, learn new skills, or start new ventures.<\/li>\n<li>The government would also allocate funds to workforce transition, training, and education under this program, addressing concerns about a potential &#8220;jobs armageddon&#8221; as companies increasingly integrate AI into their workflows.<\/li>\n<li>Studies indicate that AI is already impacting the job market, with particular effects on young workers, leading economists and senators to call for more research on AI\u2019s impact on employment.<\/li>\n<li>The AI Dividend program would be triggered by significant changes in labor force participation, wage compression in affected sectors, or large productivity gains from AI without corresponding job growth.<\/li>\n<li>Funding sources for the program include potential equity stakes in major AI firms and a modest tax on AI consumption tied to usage metrics like tokens.<\/li>\n<li>The proposal is seen as a first step in broader AI regulation, highlighting the upcoming 2026 midterm elections as a critical moment for determining the future of AI regulation and adoption in the U.S.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Candidate Unveils Plan to Pay Americans Who Face AI Job Displacement https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/house-candidate-unveils-plan-to-pay-americans-who-face-ai-job-displacement-2000748609 Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1493516220-1200x675.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-204239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204241,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204239\/revisions\/204241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}