-The 2020 presidential campaign is heating up and there are a whole range of issues being discussed, but foreign policy is really low on the list. I had the opportunity to sit down with Andrew Yang, who you probably know as the candidate of the universal basic income, a $1,000...
But privately, Yang admitted, the thought of being an Asian American man and a presidential contender weighed on his mind. “There were times early on in the campaign that I would say, ‘well, there are different versions of victory that I would be very happy with. And one of the things...
Democratic presidential hopeful entrepreneur Andrew Yang speaks during the sixth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season co-hosted by PBS NewsHour & Politico at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California on December 19, 2019. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Get...
I am so proud of this campaign. Thank you to everyone who got us here. ð— Andrew Yang𧢠(@AndrewYang) February 12, 2020 MORE: Andrew Yang: Everything you need to know about the 2020 presidential candidate "My goal when I first started running was to solve th...
entrepreneur Andrew Yang, who pushed for a universal individual basic income of 1,000 U.S. dollars per month, dropped out of the 2020 presidential race on Tuesday. "I am the math guy, and it is clear to me from the numbers that we are not going to win this race," Yang told ...
economy”—but stresses that he is a Warren fan. He has been mixing with other White House wannabes on the campaign trail, including South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, whom he calls “a very good, smart, earnest man” and who Yang thinks has potential as a vice presidential ...
The former presidential candidate discusses universal basic income, artificial intelligence, and his next job in politics. ByEzra Klein. – Thelast timeAndrew Yang was onThe Ezra Klein Show, he was just beginning his long-shot campaign for the presidency. Now, he’s fresh off a speaking slot...
Yang’s presidential campaigncentered on the dangers of automation, which the candidate saw as an existential threat to contemporary ideas of employment. To address that crisis, which Yang calls the “fourth industrial revolution,” he proposed a UBI of $1,000 a month to every US citizen, whic...
Yang's run also overlapped with the late and brief presidential campaign of former New York City MayorMichael Bloomberg, who preceded de Blasio. Yang gained traction for his Universal Basic Income platform of sending $1,000 a month to all Americans over the age of 18. But his presidential bi...
So Andrew Yang is a lawyer who made millions of dollars as an entrepreneur. But what got his presidential campaign noticed was not how much money he has, but how much money he was willing to give away. [NARRATOR]: He announced in 2017. That barely moved the needle. Then he went on ...