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Andrew Yang filed paperwork with the New York City Campaign Finance Board Dec. 23 which allows him to explore a bid for mayor in 2021. Yang is an entrepreneur and founder of Venture for America New York. Yang received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brown University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. In 2017, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in February 2020.

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Andrew Yang
stated on January 23, 2020 in a town hall in Muscatine, Iowa:

"Right now 5% of Americans donate to candidates."

By Amy Sherman • January 24, 2020
Andrew Yang
stated on December 20, 2019 in a Democratic presidential primary debate:

"They banned face masks in Hong Kong. Why? Because they have AI technology that now is using facial recognition to identify protesters if they so much as do anything on the street, so they can follow up with them and detain them later."

By Bill McCarthy • December 20, 2019
Andrew Yang
stated on December 19, 2019 in comments during the December Democratic presidential primary debate.:

"If you're a black woman, you're 320% more likely to die from complications in childbirth."

By Victoria Knight • December 20, 2019
Andrew Yang
stated on October 22, 2019 in an interview with The Washington Post:

"I'm one of only two candidates in the field that 10% or more of Donald Trump voters say they would support in the general" election.

By Louis Jacobson • October 24, 2019
Andrew Yang
stated on September 21, 2019 in Iowa Steak Fry speech:

Says about universal basic income, "Thomas Paine was for it at our founding ... Martin Luther King, champion in the ‘60s, called it a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans… It passed the U.S. House of Representatives twice in 1971."

By Miriam Valverde • October 16, 2019

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