Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang: ‘We need to build a trickle-up economy’ as Automation, Artificial Intelligence Change American Workplace

Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang: 'We need to build a trickle-up economy' as Automation, Artificial Intelligence Change American Workplace

Presidential hopeful Andrew Yang said Saturday that the tech innovation driving the American economy is simultaneously putting large numbers of Americans out of work and argued that the U.S. needs to rethink how it measures economic success.

"We need to build a trickle-up economy," said Yang during an appearance on MSNBC’s AM Joy, where the 2020 hopeful made the point that President Donald Trump was elected, in no small part, by Americans who had seen their manufacturing jobs taken by machines and computers – a fate that Yang said now faces the country’s large retail workforce.

"Being a retail worker is […]

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