Samantha Lee2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang sat down on Tuesday with INSIDER politics editor Anthony Fisher for a live-streamed Business Insider Today town hall to discuss everything from Yang's universal basic income program - the Freedom Dividend - to data privacy and climate change.
Here are some of the highlights from the event:
- On impeachment:
- Yang didn't directly take a position on whether Congress should impeach President Donald Trump, saying, "it's Congress' job to investigate Trump and my job to beat him."
- On data privacy:
- On opioids:
- Why the Freedom Dividend is a better solution than free college:
- On student debt:
- Yang said he supports a plan like the one Warren recently rolled out to forgive most outstanding student loan debt.
- "If you have a choice between hundreds of thousands of young people living in their parents' basements or investing that money back into the economy, we should choose the latter," Yang said, adding that debt forgiveness would be like a "stimulus of the people."
- On climate change:
- On guns:
- On prisoners voting:
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