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Andrew Yang On The Rise In Automation, The Loss Of American Jobs, And Universal Income
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:19:13
Publish Date: 2018-07-11 10:10:00
Description: Andrew Yang is the founder of Venture for America, a major non-profit that places top college graduates in start-ups for two years in emerging U.S. cities to generate job growth and train the next generation of entrepreneurs. Yang has been the CEO, co-founder or executive at a number of technology and education companies. In "The War on Normal People," Andrew Yang paints a dire portrait of the American economy. Rapidly advancing technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics and automation software are making millions of Americans' livelihoods irrelevant. The consequences of these trends are already being felt across our communities in the form of political unrest, drug use, and other social ills. The future looks dire-but is it unavoidable? Yang doesn't think so. And he plans to run for President of The United States in 2020 to put forward a different future; one in which having a job is distinct from the capacity to prosper and seek fulfillment. At this vision's core is
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