Andrew Yang Quotes

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

When America installs a minimum income, it's going to be doing it in a very different historical context than Switzerland or Sweden or Germany, or any other country might do it. And we're doing it in a context where it has the potential, I think, for much better consequences than in those other countries.

The most important thing is guaranteed livable income, which will take a while to bring in because it means all the provinces have to participate.

Expanding the EITC can get us close to a universal basic minimum income.

Universal basic income is not a solution in search of a problem - it is the obvious solution that has been in front of us for years. It only requires us to have the vision, empathy and courage to adopt it for the American people before it is too late.

A primary justification for a basic income is social justice.

While it won't solve all the world's ills - and ideas such as a rent cap and more social housing are necessary in places where housing is scarce - a basic income would work like venture capital for the people.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

We have to define and put into practice a better, more coherent and effective policy on income security.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.

You must not embark on programs to curb economic growth without placing a priority on maintaining income, so that the poorest people won’t simply be further depressed in their condition but will have a share, and be able to live decently.

We don't want to saw off the first rung of the economic ladder.

Money is ammunition and the surest way I know to make lasting friends, to earn trust and create peace is by providing meaningful jobs, putting people back to work so they can feed their families.

The 'People's Budget' rewards hard work and invests in our country. It ensures that everyone has an opportunity to get a good education, find a good job, live in a safe and secure home, put food on the table, have affordable health care, save for retirement, and maybe have a little left over.

I want to give people a basic income, so that if you're working hard, doing the best you can, that you can not just survive, but you can have a decent life.

You want to continue with the social safety net: the good, the bad and the ugly parts of that, you have to have a vibrant economy. You have to have growth of the economy.

We have to have an economy that is strong for everyone, working families who believe they can get ahead and give the children a better quality of life.

A guaranteed basic income has the potential for making civic organizations, families and neighborhoods much more vital, helpful and responsive than they have been in decades.

If we are to depression-proof our economy we may need to pay more attention to the radical ideas and policies of those who witnessed the misery inflicted on so many during the 1930s.

We need to make sure that people are progressively better off in work than they would be on welfare.

I'm a capitalist, and I believe that universal basic income is necessary for capitalism to continue.

From Scotland to India, and from Silicon Valley to Kenya, policymakers all over the world have become interested in basic income as an answer to poverty, unemployment and the bureaucratic behemoth of the modern welfare state.