The tech entrepreneur is pushing a $12,000 annual income for adult U.S. citizens and lamenting a coming “crisis” as robots take jobs now held by humans.
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang poses for a portrait while campaigning April 27 in Stuart, Iowa. By Holly Bailey Holly Bailey National Political Reporter Email Bio Follow May 10 at 6:00 AM STUART, Iowa — Andrew Yang knows that most Americans have absolutely no idea who he is. Even before he makes his expected debut on the presidential debate stage next month, he has a good guess what viewers will be thinking when the camera shifts to him.
He has laid out nearly 80 policy proposals on his website, including his call for the NCAA to pay college athletes, and free marriage counseling for all. At the center of Yang’s campaign is what he calls the “Freedom Dividend,” a form of universal basic income which would give $1,000 each month to every American between age 18 and 64. It has generated enough attention that voters have forced better-known candidates such as Sen.
After the Rogan podcast, Yang’s Twitter followers jumped eightfold — going from roughly 34,000 to 287,000 in a little over a month. Online fans started creating thousands of memes and videos on Facebook, Instagram and other social media, spreading his campaign further. “What we did to the manufacturing workers we are now going to do to the retail workers, the call center workers, the fast-food workers, the truck drivers, and on and on through the economy,” Yang declared at a rally in Chicago last month. “This is a crisis.”
This is where Yang’s “Freedom Dividend” comes in. The $12,000 given annually to every U.S. adult up to age 64 would be funded in part by a 10 percent “value added tax” on technology companies such as Amazon, Google and Facebook, which he estimates would generate roughly $800 billion a year. To prove his point, Yang decided to use his own money to give $1,000 a month to two people for a year — someone in New Hampshire, the other in Iowa, the first voting states. In late December, Yang began sending a monthly check to the Fassi family in Goffstown, N.H.
That was enough to land Yang in the “top tier” of 2020 candidates that Fassi is considering voting for, though he is wary of the idea that people might think Yang is trying to buy his support. “I want to see how far he can go,” Fassi said, adding that he wasn’t comfortable backing a “fringe candidate.” He added that he likes Sen. Elizabeth Warren of neighboring Massachusetts, and soon he and his family will house a staffer working for another Democratic candidate, Sen. Kamala D.
The fact that Yang is unabashedly noting his Asian ancestry makes it all the more strange that his candidacy has found fans on the alt-right, many of whom have reframed his pitch on universal basic income as a quest to save white America. White nationalist Richard Spencer has tweeted approvingly of Yang, describing him as “the most grounded presidential candidate of my lifetime.”
France Dernières Nouvelles, France Actualités
Similar News:Vous pouvez également lire des articles d'actualité similaires à celui-ci que nous avons collectés auprès d'autres sources d'information.
Perspective | Andrew Beyer: The Kentucky Derby decision was a bad oneWhile Maximum Security may have veered off course, officials should disqualify a horse only when a foul has affected the outcome, or is particularly egregious.
Lire la suite »
Andrew Freund's father led police to son's body, court records showVideo police recovered from an Illinois woman's cellphone showing her bruised 5-year-old son prompted the boy's father to lead investigators to the child's body, according to newly released court records.
Lire la suite »
The CEO Who Wants More Women in MiningBHP CEO Andrew Mackenzie, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, talks about gender balance, automation, activists and explaining changes to employees.
Lire la suite »
Kamala Harris said that without voter suppression, Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum would've won their 2018 races“We need a new voting rights act,” said Harris said during her keynote speech at the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner.
Lire la suite »
The Oath with Chuck Rosenberg on Apple PodcastsListen to this week’s episode of TheOath with Chuck Rosenberg featuring fmr. FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe:
Lire la suite »
The CEO Who Wants to Change How People Think About MiningBHP CEO Andrew Mackenzie, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, talks about automation, activists and explaining changes to employees.
Lire la suite »
State Department appeals ruling that granted gay couple’s son citizenshipAndrew and Elad Dvash-Banks' twins were conceived via surrogate, but the U.S. government is trying to prevent one son from acquiring citizenship through his father.
Lire la suite »
NY state Senate passes bill allowing Congress to get Trump tax returnsGov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, has pledged to sign the legislation, which covers the president's state filings, if it reaches his desk.
Lire la suite »
Fox News legal analyst insists Barr's response to Congress 'was not a true answer'“He certainly had read the newspaper reports of the complaints and he had a letter from Mueller himself complaining,” former judge Andrew Napolitano said.
Lire la suite »
More Mexican immigrants in the U.S. are highly skilled, study finds'There is a dramatic change in the profile of Mexican immigrants coming to the United States,' said Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute.
Lire la suite »