This presidential candidate wants to give all Americans $1,000 a month. He's Andrew Yang — and he thinks he has the policies to beat Bernie, Beto, and Kamala.
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00:00Imagine what $1,000 a month would do for you right now.
00:14I'm running for president to wake up the American people to the fact that it is not immigrants that are causing
00:19economic problems. It is new technologies that are pushing labor and labor more and more to the side.
00:30My wife is at home with our two young children, one of whom is autistic, and her work is valued at zero by the market and zero in GDP.
00:40We have to broaden our definition of work. Right now, millions of American women are in exploitative or abusive jobs and relationships or have the work that they're doing every day completely ignored or undervalued by the market, and we can change that with the Freedom Dividend.
01:00Self-driving trucks and other innovations will be great for GDP, but they'll be very bad for the 3.5 million truck drivers in the U.S. and the 5 million Americans who work at the truck stops, motels, and diners that rely on the trucker stopping every day.
01:31We have left you a total shambles of an economy and a planet for you to inherit. We've set you up with record levels of school loans for degrees that may or may not pay off.
01:42And so I want to try and undo this damage. I want to forgive many of your student loans, get the cost of college down, reverse the acceleration of climate change, and build an economy that revolves around you.
01:55Because we can't have young people not buying homes, starting families, starting businesses because you're all paying off these college debts and you have an insecure path forward. That's no way to build a society and it's no way to build an economy.
02:08I am not some narcissist who's dreamt about being president. I'm an entrepreneur who's trying to solve the biggest set of problems in our society today.
02:27We know that our government is not stepping up to the real challenges of the 21st century.
02:32So I am here to solve these problems and if our government were doing a better job, then Donald Trump would not be our president today.
02:47I enjoy being cast as the underdog and the long shot candidate because we're just going to keep growing and growing and growing and then peak at the right time.
02:54Americans are waking up to the fact that we have to make an economy that works for us, that works for human beings. And that's why we're going to take this message all the way to the White House in 2020.