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Andrew Yang
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Andrew Yang is an American businessman and political commentator whose policy advocacy addresses automation-driven job displacement through universal basic income.
Biography
Andrew Yang is an American businessman, lobbyist and political commentator. The son of Taiwanese American immigrants, he grew up in New York state and graduated from Brown University and Columbia Law School. He worked as a lawyer and entrepreneur and founded Venture for America.
Yang sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. His signature proposal was a universal basic income of $1,000 per month, intended to offset job displacement caused by automation. After suspending his campaign, he joined CNN as a political commentator and created the nonprofit Humanity Forward. He unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City in 2021. Later that year, he left the Democratic Party and founded the Forward Party, which he co-chairs with Christine Todd Whitman and Michael S. Willner.
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Books by Andrew Yang
The war on normal people
The War on Normal People examines how new technologies are eliminating jobs and calls for measures, including universal basic income, to stabilize the American economy.