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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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Latest Fact-Checks Of Andrew Yang

How many Americans actually donate to political candidates?
By Amy Sherman
January 24, 2020

"Right now 5% of Americans donate to candidates." 

Yang’s account of Hong Kong’s face-mask ban misses some details
By Bill McCarthy
December 20, 2019

"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…

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By Shefali Luthra, Victoria Knight
December 20, 2019

"If you're a black woman, you're 320% more likely to die from complications in childbirth."

Andrew Yang’s claim of support among Trump voters rates Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson
October 24, 2019

"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.

Fact-checking Andrew Yang on history of universal basic income
By Miriam Valverde
October 16, 2019

Says about universal basic income, "Thomas Paine was for it at our founding ... Martin Luther King, champion in the ‘60s, called it a guaranteed…

Andrew Yang revives debunked claim about Green New Deal killing air travel
By John Kruzel
September 6, 2019

The Green New Deal "would do away with commercial air travel."

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By Tom Kertscher
April 3, 2019

"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…

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