Biography
Andrew Yang is an American entrepreneur, lawyer, lobbyist, author, and politician. Yang ran in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries and the 2021 New York City Democratic mayoral race. In 2021, he created the political party and action committee Forward Party, which he co-chairs with former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman.
Age
He is 49 years old as of 13 January 2024. He was born in 1975 in Schenectady, New York, United States.
Family
His parents emigrated from Taiwan to the United States in the 1960s and met while attending graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. Yang is of Hoklo Taiwanese heritage. His father had a PhD in physics and worked in IBM and General Electric’s research labs, earning over 50 patents during his career.
Education
His mother earned a master’s degree in statistics before working as a university systems administrator and, later, an artist. Yang has an elder brother named Lawrence, who is a psychology professor at New York University. He went to Phillips Exeter Academy, a private school in New Hampshire. After graduating from Exeter in 1992, he enrolled at Brown University, where he studied economics and political science before graduating in 1996. He subsequently went to Columbia Law School, where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review. In 1999, he received his Juris Doctor degree.
Wife
Yang has been married to Evelyn Yang (née Lu) since 2011 and they have two sons.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $4 million.
Political Party
In 2011, Yang was named a “Hero of Progress” by the Obama organization and was chosen as an Official Representative for Worldwide Business venture in 2015. He documented with the Government Political decision Commission (FEC) to run for Leader of the US in 2020, with a mission zeroing in on strategy and a “technocratic approach.” Yang’s mission picked up speed in February 2019 following an appearance on the well known web recording The Joe Rogan Experience.
Yang’s mission was known for its weighty dependence on Web based crusading and ubiquity on the web, with The New York Times referring to him as “The Web’s #1 Applicant.” His allies, known as the Yang Posse, welcomed regard for his mission via virtual entertainment stages through images and viral battling.
Yang exited the official race on February 11, 2020, and embraced Joe Biden on Walk 10, 2020. On numerous events, news media disproportionally excluded Yang from political decision inclusion or introduced deluding information about his remaining in surveys. Yang joined CNN as a political pundit and later made a web recording, Yang Talks, where he examined public and worldwide issues with visitor reporters.
On April 29, 2020, Yang reported that he was making a legitimate move against the New York State Leading group of Decisions after the state political race commission casted a ballot to drop its official essential. Toward the beginning of May, the appointed authority governed in support of Yang.
Yang was at first avoided with regards to the rundown of affirmed speakers for the 2020 Vote based Public Show however talked at the occasion on August 20. In September 2020, the Biden lobby employed Yang as an individual from its private company warning committee. In November 2020, Yang declared that he and his significant other were moving to Atlanta to help Raphael Warnock’s and Jon Ossoff’s missions in the January 2021 Georgia Senate spillover races.
In August 2020, Yang uncovered that he had been in touch with Joe Biden’s 2020 official mission about an expected job in the Biden bureau zeroing in on innovation in the public eye. After the suspension of his official mission, Yang was viewed as an expected up-and-comer in the 2021 New York City mayoral political decision.
Forward
After his presidential campaign was suspended on March 5, 2020, Yang declared that he was forming the nonprofit Humanity Forward Foundation, which would advocate for the policies he had run on during his campaign, including universal basic income (UBI), ranked voting, and data privacy. Yang also stated that the organization, in conjunction with The Spark of Hudson, formed HudsonUP, and that the organization would provide $500,000 in UBI to Hudson, New York residents as a demonstration of the benefits of UBI. When the Trump administration stated that it was considering implementing a basic income in response to the pandemic, Yang declared that he had contacted the White House and had extended his team’s services.
Following Yang’s announcement of his candidacy for mayor of New York City on August 3, Yang announced that his organization was partnering with The $1K Project, an online network that assists in identifying families in need, who will be awarded three months of $1,000 payments. One of the network’s founders describes the program as “a bridge to reemployment or other kinds of support.” On March 20, CNN reported that Humanity Forward would soon spend $1 million on $1,000 monthly payments to 500 low-income households in the Bronx during the crisis. Yang tweeted that the number of households was expected to double with additional funding.
Books
♦ Smart People Should Build Things: How to Restore Our Culture of Achievement, Build a Path for Entrepreneurs, and Create New Jobs in America. HarperCollins
♦ The War on Normal People: The Truth About America’s Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
♦ Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy
♦ The Last Election (co-authored with Stephen Marche)