Andrew Yang ran for President as a nobody. Now he is running for mayor as a celebrity. In March, as New York City was gripped by the COVID -19 outbreak , Andrew Yang’s nonprofit, Humanity Forward, announced that it planned to give one-time grants of a thousand dollars each to a thousand residents in the Bronx. Yang had become famous running for President as an evangelist for a universal basic income , and the new grants were intended to demonstrate the importance of giving people cash at a time of unprecedented crisis. When the pandemic hit, poor minority communities […]
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