Yang was born January 13, 1975, to the parents of Taiwanese immigrants in upstate New York. He has one older brother, Lawrence. On his campaign website, Yang said his dad was a researcher at IBM who generated dozens of patents over his career. His mother was the systems administrator at a local university.
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Yang and his brother in another childhood photo.
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Yang, left, poses with his parents and brother. He studied economics and political science at Brown University and went to law school at Columbia University.
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Yang is greeted by President Barack Obama in a White House reception room in 2012. Yang was among those honored as a "Champion of Change." He started Venture for America, a fellowship program that aims to connect recent college graduates with startups.
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Obama meets with Yang and other Champions of Change at the White House. In 2015, Obama named Yang an ambassador for global entrepreneurship.
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Yang appears on Bloomberg television in March 2018, months after starting his presidential campaign. He talked on the show about his goal to institute a universal basic income for all American adults.
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In August 2018, Yang takes a selfie with an attendee of the Democratic Wing Ding event in Iowa.
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Yang helps man the grill at the Iowa State Fair.
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Yang meets with union leaders in Iowa.
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Yang and his wife, Evelyn, walk with their two sons.
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Yang meets with local Democrats in Sioux City, Iowa, in February 2019.
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"We are undergoing the greatest economic transformation in our history, and we are dealing with it by pretending nothing is happening," Yang wrote in a CNN op-ed in April 2019.
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Yang talks to audience members in Washington during a CNN town hall moderated by Ana Cabrera in April 2019.
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Yang answers a question during the first Democratic debates in June 2019.
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Yang and former Vice President Joe Biden talk backstage at the CNN Democratic debates in July 2019.
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Yang enjoys a corn dog at the Iowa State Fair in August 2019.
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Yang breaks down in tears at a forum about gun safety in August 2019. He became emotional when discussing gun violence prevention with a woman who said she lost her daughter to a stray bullet.
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Yang talks to journalists following a town-hall meeting in Pella, Iowa, in January 2020.
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Yang takes a photo with an audience member as he arrives at an "Our Rights, Our Courts" forum in Concord, New Hampshire, in February 2020.
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Yang speaks during an event in Manchester, New Hampshire, in February 2020.
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