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He is committed to pursuing the creation of policies for universal basic income in the United States, saying, “I’m going to be in the White House when we sign universal basic income into law and we eradicate gross poverty in this country. Since the end of his campaign in February, 2020, Yang has forayed his efforts to influence policy change in the United States into the development of the nonprofit, Humanity Forward. To me, one of the great challenges we have as a country is maintaining our ability to attract talented immigrants from around the world,” says Yang, “People like my parents.” Campaigning for president at a rally in Washington Square Park, 2019. Certainly, economically and entrepreneurially: Immigrants and children of immigrants fuel much of our economy from communities in the Midwest, to Silicon Valley, to New York. “Immigration is the lifeblood of this country on so many levels. Yang also supports broad immigration reform. Immigration is the lifeblood of this country on so many levels.
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“If you’re an entrepreneur,” says Yang, “ideally you’re motivated by a problem or a set of problems….the biggest problems I saw were problems that government would have to address.” Yang’s campaign platform centered on ‘Human Centered Capitalism’ – seeking to provide universal basic income to individuals, and to address wealth inequality in the United States. In November 2017, Yang filed with the Federal Election Commission to enter the United States Democratic Primaries for President, the first Asian American Democratic Candidate to do so. The driving mission behind Venture for America is that change and positive economic growth require vision, leadership, and a willingness to take risks. In 2011, he founded Venture for America, encouraging young entrepreneurs to develop businesses that would stoke job creation in the United States.
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He quit the firm, and developed a number of start-up companies during the early tech boom. Within 5 months of working with the firm, Yang knew he wanted to do something more creative than the opportunities that corporate law could afford him. Following Law School, Yang went to work at the prestigious firm, Davis Polk & Wardwell. He then earned his juris doctor from Columbia Law School. Yang graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, and went on to major in political science and economics at Brown University. Andrew pictured with his parents and brother, graduating from Brown University in 1996. He credits a great deal of his tenacity to being the child of immigrants, acknowledging the impact of seeing the hard work his parents undertook to provide for him and his brother as children, to the challenges he experienced feeling isolated among his classmates as a young child – sometimes being the only Asian kid in his class. It is this ambition and passion to build that have driven his work, and guided his multiple career paths. Yang seeks to identify problems in the world, and to engineer innovative solutions to address them. The youngest of two children, Yang’s parents emigrated from Taiwan in the 1970s to study, and met while at the University of California, Berkeley. “Certainly for me, I always felt an affinity for the underdog…I think that’s something that a lot of immigrants and children of immigrants can relate to.”Īndrew Yang was born in Schenectady, New York, and grew up in Katonah, in Westchester County.