Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang On Universal Basic Income And The Opioid Epidemic

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Presidential candidates have already been spending a lot of time in New Hampshire. Morning Edition Host Rick Ganley has been sitting down with them to chat about where they stand on the issues facing Granite Staters.

Andrew Yang is a 44-year-old entrepreneur who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination. Rick spoke with Yang after a campaign event in Concord:

(Below is a transcript from the NHPR interview.)

You proposed some fundamental changes to the political system and the democratic process like lowering the voting age to 16 [and] introducing ranked choice voting on a national level. Do you see New Hampshire voters as receptive to these fundamental changes? Have they been telling you that this is what they want?

Ranked choice voting, there's a lot of enthusiasm for it here in New Hampshire. And I would say that and Democracy Dollars, which is putting $100 in the hands of every American voter so that they can recapture our political leadership and our democracy from the corporate interests. Those are the most important proposals. Lowering the voting age I do think is the right move, but that's something that I have not spoken to New Hampshire voters as much about and it's not as central to my platform.

Read more: https://www.nhpr.org/post/presidential-candidate-andrew-yang-universal-basic-income-and-opioid-epidemic