Paul Niehaus is an economist and entrepreneur who’s researching the impact of large-scale anti-poverty programs. He’s currently an Associate Professor of Economics at UC San Diego. Formerly, he co-founded Give Directly and served as its chairman which is one of the biggest international NGOs. It has delivered over $500 million in conditional digital cash transfers across 9 different countries.

Ibrahim, Jenish & Matt discussed UBI (universal basic income) with Paul among other economic topics.

You can learn more about his work here: https://econweb.ucsd.edu/~pniehaus/
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About the Gen Z Speaks Podcast Hosts:
Ibrahim Ahmed is a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Southern California (USC) studying politics, philosophy, and law.

Jenish Thanki is a fourth-year undergraduate student at the California State University Long Beach (CSULB) studying computer science.

Matthew Gutierrez is a summa cum laude graduate from the University of La Verne's (ULV) business administration program.