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American entrepreneur, attorney and political candidate (born 1975)

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Andrew Yang is an American attorney, entrepreneur, philanthropist, founder of Venture for America, and a U.S. 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. He worked in startups and early-stage growth companies as a founder or executive from 2000 to 2009.

Known for

  • Cuomo — Self - Guest2022
  • The Supporters — Self2021
  • American Gadfly — Self2021
  • Storm Lake — Self2021
  • The Andrew Yang Show — Self2021
  • Ziwe — Self2021
  • Tucker Carlson Today — Self - Guest2021
  • Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos — Self (archive footage)2020
  • Tamron Hall — Self - Guest2019
  • Axios — Self2018

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Quotes

  • The United States should provide an annual income of $12,000 for each American aged 18–64, with the amount indexed to increase with inflation. It would require a constitutional supermajority to modify or amend. ... The poverty line is currently $11,770. We would essentially be bringing all Americans to the poverty line and alleviate gross poverty.
  • Deaths now outnumber births among white people in more than half the states in the country. Much of this is low birth rates and white men dying from substance abuse and suicide. Our life expectancy has declined for 3 years. We need to do much more.
  • I support the freedom of parents to adopt circumcision for any religious or cultural ritual as desired. Actually have attended a brit milah myself and felt privileged to be there. Thanks Mikael. Always up to parents.
  • I'm very proud of my son and anyone who has someone on the spectrum in their family feels the exact same way.
  • The opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes math.
  • There are millions of women across the country who are stuck in exploitative or abusive jobs or relationships that would be improved simply by putting $1,000 a month in their hands.

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Position established
Born
( 1975-01-13 ) January 13, 1975 (age 51) , Schenectady, New York , U.S.
Party
Democratic (until 2021), Forward (since 2021)
Spouse
Evelyn Lu ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2011 ) ​
Education
Brown University ( BA ), Columbia University ( JD )
Traditional chinese
楊安澤
Simplified chinese
杨安泽
Hanyu pinyin
Yáng Ānzé
Hokkien poj
Iûⁿ An-te̍k

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Official website

Humanity Forward Foundation

We accelerate solutions to the problems families face, by supporting research that directly benefits people in America.

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Andrew Yang was a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and a 2021 candidate for mayor of New York City. Named by President Obama as a Presidential Ambassador of Global Entrepreneurship, he is the founder of Humanity Forward and Venture for America. Yang’s New York Times bestselling book The War on Normal People helped introduce the idea of universal basic income into the political mainstream. Yang is a graduate of Brown University, where he graduated with degrees in economics and political science, and Columbia Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He lives with his family in New York.

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Encyclopedic overview

Andrew Yang (born January 13, 1975) is an American businessman, lobbyist and political commentator. He founded the political party and action committee Forward Party in 2021, for which he serves as co-chair alongside former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman and Michael S. Willner.

The son of Taiwanese American immigrants, Yang was born and raised in New York state. He graduated from Brown University and Columbia Law School, and was a lawyer and entrepreneur before being a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries. His signature policy, a monthly universal basic income (UBI) of $1,000, was intended to offset job displacement by automation.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Andrew Yang” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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