On the debate stage Tuesday, wearing a 'math' pin on his lapel, Yang reeled off numbers and data points about automation, the digital revolution, and a dying manufacturing industry.
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang calls himself"the Asian man who likes math."
He's pitched himself as an entrepreneur who understands technology and the economy, the kind of candidate most likely to bring a calculator to the Oval Office. It's a pitch that's impressed voters: he's sold 32,000 hats emblazoned with"MATH" and he ranked sixth inHe's been campaigning on a promise to create a universal basic income — $1000 a month — to save the nation from the many jobs that will be lost to robots.
On the debate stage Tuesday, wearing a"math" pin on his lapel, Yang reeled off numbers and data points about automation, the digital revolution, and a dying manufacturing industry. NBC News fact-checked several of those claims.
It's a data point he's used before on the trail, and it's way off the actual number of manufacturing jobs lost in those states, according to government data.told a New York City crowd in June."And Donald Trump is our president for one simple reason: We automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, all of the swing states that Donald Trump needed to win.
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