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@AndrewYang

Entrepreneur, Champion of a Human-Centered Economy, , , UBI, Founder , , ‘Forward’ on sale

New York, USA
Joined December 2013

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    I spent 3 years mainstreaming universal basic income. Now I’m going to spend at least that long mainstreaming open primaries, ranked choice voting and independent politics as the keys to breaking us out of a polarized duopoly and giving people a real choice and chance.

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  2. This is terrible - too many communities are being afflicted by these senseless and tragic shootings. My heart goes out to the victims and their families. 🙏

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  3. “Boys raised in single-parent households seem to suffer more than girls . . Boys without fathers are more likely to get in trouble from elementary school onward, and appear to be ‘more responsive to parental inputs (or the absence thereof) than are girls’ according to one study.”

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  5. The share of children born to unmarried mothers more than doubled between 1980 and 2015, from 18 to 40 percent. Single mothers outnumber fathers more than four to one. “We see a decline in marriage, but a rise in the fraction of births that are disadvantaged . . .“ - David Autor

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  6. Many of our biggest problems are related to each other.

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  8. Extremism is bad, & the attention economy is complicit in fostering it. We need to find a way to evolve.

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  9. Political scientist Barbara Walter documented ways for conflict to break out - with one common element being that an ethnic group feels its status to be threatened

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  10. Unfortunately this remains one of the main challenges in front of us.

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  11. The mass shooting in Buffalo is awful and heartbreaking - atrocities like this should not be possible in America. Prayers to those whose families and friends have been killed or injured in this senseless act of violence. And thank you to the law enforcement officers on the scene.

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  12. 82 percent of voters agree with the statement: “Members of Congress stay in office too long.”

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  13. The media pays far too much attention to the media.

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  15. “Social media is affecting our mental health. The numbers bear this out. Teenage girls have seen an unprecedented surge in anxiety and depression coincident with their Internet and social media use.”

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  16. May 13

    We have to remember that each and every one of us is part of humanity. We must be determined to achieve positive change, but also to take a long view of what needs to be done. What is important is not to become demoralized. Optimism leads to success; pessimism leads to defeat.

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  17. Monday on - who was on Bill Maher this weekend - joins us to talk how the world can respond to the major crises facing us all and his new book “The Power of Crisis.”

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  18. It’s only when you realize that neither winning nor policy is the main point of either major party do you understand what needs to change.

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  19. I was an answer on Jeopardy tonight!! 😀🚀

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  20. I was a party promoter in my late 20s/early 30s in NYC. Some things don’t change. 😀

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  21. If we want another choice we will have to build it ourselves, which I, for one, am excited to do. 😀⬆️🇺🇸

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