Andrew Yang, U.S. 2020 Democratic presidential candidate was born on January 13, 1975. In 2012, the Obama administration honored Andrew Yang as a "Champion of Change" and in 2015 "Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship." Andrew Yang is an American entrepreneur, politician, and founder of "Venture for America."
Andrew Yang visited Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 5th, 2019 to talk about jobs. The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate is known for teaching and speaking about how modern jobs and their availability will be changing due to automation and modern technology companies like Amazon roboticize jobs in a subtle way and displace human workers. 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang promotes the growing importance of Universal Basic Income (UBI) or a "Citizen Dividend" (Thomas Paine) and the ways in which Universal Basic Income, or a citizen dividend, such as the type the state of Alaska has would help offset costs that Americans have in many ways, including health care. Andrew Yang wants to give every American a $1000 per month Universal Basic Income (UBI) payment.
Andrew Yang has also made a point of explaining how Gross Domestic Product (GDP) focuses on the
wrong concept of measureing how great America is. America should be by health standards and the United States standard of living or Human Domestic Product (HDP) instead of gross domestic product (GDP.)
