Who is that guy? Andrew Yang’s presidential campaign draws crowds, money and an expected spot on the Democratic debate stage.

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.

UBI properly implemented is one of the most effective, efficient, simple, fair, and cheapest ways to accomplish many of the progressive economic/inequality goals that truly benefit everyone. Love how data driven AndrewYang is.

Great article

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That guy is the next President of the United States of America HumanityFirst FreedomDividend YangGang2020 Yang2020

Oh stop trying to prop this guy up

Where were his parents born ?

I want to see his parents and his birth certificate.

😍Yang! 😀😍

He's someone that buys a lot of internet bots.

POWERPOINT POWERPOINT POWERPOINT

It’s the time to have an Asian president good at MATH

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Chinese alternate Soviet Federation for US meddling

Andrew Yang? Come again?!?!

He's got 0 chance no different than the others!

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