Andrew Yang, a tech executive and early entrant into the 2020 presidential race is advocating for the idea of universal basic income. “We have to make it a right of citizenship for all Americans.” Here’s what you need to know about him:
, might not have much name recognition now, but his popularity and presence have netted increased prominence among the crowded bench -- due in part to his unconventional proposals to resolve income disparity and warnings of a robot takeover of America's job sector.
At the National Action Network conference in New York in April, the tech industry veteran underscored the importance of addressing the needs of the future -- as motivations for his candidacy. "I was stunned when I saw the disparities between Detroit and San Francisco or Cleveland and Manhattan. You feel like you’re traveling across dimensions and decades and not just a couple of time zones," he added in that interview with the magazine. "None of our political leaders are willing to acknowledge the elephant in the room that is tearing our communities apart, in the form of technological change.
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