Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang filed paperwork with the New York City Campaign Finance Board Dec. 23 which allows him to explore a bid for mayor in 2021. Yang is an entrepreneur and founder of Venture for America New York. Yang received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brown University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. In 2017, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in February 2020.
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"Right now 5% of Americans donate to candidates."
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"They banned face masks in Hong Kong. Why? Because they have AI technology that now is using facial recognition to identify protesters if they so…
"If you're a black woman, you're 320% more likely to die from complications in childbirth."
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"I'm one of only two candidates in the field that 10% or more of Donald Trump voters say they would support in the general" election.
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Says about universal basic income, "Thomas Paine was for it at our founding ... Martin Luther King, champion in the ‘60s, called it a guaranteed…
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The Green New Deal "would do away with commercial air travel."
"America’s life expectancy has declined for the last three years in a row, the first time in a hundred years, because of surges in suicides…