Andrew Yang Talks Universal Basic Income, Climate Change, With Undecided Voters | Off Script | NPR

Entrepreneur Andrew Yang answers questions from two undecided Democratic voters. NPR’s Noel King hosts. Click "Show More" below for topic timecodes. Watch all the full interviews here:    • Off Script   INTRO 2:05 - Yang sings Prince 2:34 - Yang discusses riding his bike in New York City UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME - 3:42 4:22 - What is universal basic income and the freedom dividend? 11:08 - Yang defends his preference for VAT taxes over wealth taxes 21:00 - Yang on “winners and losers” in an economically divided country 24:09 - Will people have to choose between welfare and the freedom dividend? 28:53 - How would the freedom dividend combat inequality in education? 33:05 - Why not set an income threshold for the freedom dividend? CLIMATE CHANGE - 37:01 39:04 - “[Climate change] is already changing lives and destroying lives.” 40:12 - Yang on thorium, a “next-generation fuel for nuclear reactors” 43:16 - How will he reach people who “don’t believe in climate change”? 47:18 - What does he mean by moving people to “higher ground”? 50:16 - Is the idea for people to use their freedom dividends to prepare for climate change? OUTRO 51:32 - Yang’s views on impeachment 52:08 - Yang on Asian-American identity 53:56 - “Are you running for president to win?” 55:44 - “Why you're so averse to a wealth tax?” 57:21 - “If you don’t become president, how are you going to continue to work on these ideas?” ------------------------------------------------------ • Read "'A Game Changer': Andrew Yang Explains How He'd Give Every American $1,000 Per Month" at https://www.npr.org/2019/10/17/770962... FOLLOW NPR ELSEWHERE   / npr     / npr     / npr   https://www.npr.org/