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Andrew Yang

Radio Atlantic

The Atlantic

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The former presidential candidate discusses universal basic income, coronavirus-linked bigotry against Asian Americans, and how the pandemic has accelerated the automation trends he's long worried about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're going to be. Welcome to the ticket, I'm Isaac Dauver. Well, it's been over a month of sheltering

0:20.8

in place and it's incredible how much things have changed, despite so little seeming to change day by day now.

0:27.0

Where they're headed? Who knows?

0:30.0

The presidential campaign is pretty much frozen in place with Donald Trump doing his briefings and Joe Biden trying to keep up from his basement studio.

0:37.0

At the same time, we've seen a tremendous change in what's possible politically.

0:41.0

Modern candidates are defined by seemingly impossible to future policies.

0:45.0

Bernie Sanders and Medicare for All, Donald Trump and the border wall.

0:49.0

But one 2020 candidate had an impossible policy that all of a sudden wasn't just possible, it was bipartisan law.

0:57.0

That would be Andrew Yang in Universal Basic Income.

1:00.0

Yang wanted to give every American a thousand dollars a month.

1:05.0

We're not quite there yet, but in principle,

1:08.0

that policy took a huge step forward in the $1,200 stimulus check sent out just this month.

1:13.6

He's glad that the idea is working,

1:15.4

but doesn't take real pleasure in it becoming so necessary,

1:18.7

so quickly.

1:20.6

And much like what differentiated him

1:22.0

from the rest of the field in the Democratic presidential race, he's much. And much less

1:25.0

less optimistic about what comes next.

1:27.0

Take a listen.

1:28.0

The last time that you and I sat down was six weeks ago it feels like maybe a

1:40.2

thousand years ago we were in Keene, New Hampshire,

1:45.2

when you were in the process of realizing

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