Yang's claim to the title rests largely on Venture for America, an innovative nonprofit he launched in 2011 with a clear objective: Create 100,000 new jobs by 2025 by placing top college graduates at startups across the country. Think 'Teach for America' for entrepreneurship. Several
At a small event in Londonderry, New Hampshire, last week, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang was talking about one of his key qualifications to be president of the United States -- his track record of creating"thousands of jobs."
Antonia Dean, a Venture for America spokeswoman, told ABC News that the number on their website was out of date. The actual number of jobs created is much higher, she said, though she declined to provide more recent figures. Dean also noted that Venture for America, which is no longer affiliated with Yang, who left more than two years ago, is no longer making job-creation claims as it begins"shifting the way we measure our impact.
"Venture for America has a great mission because we know from lots of research in recent years that new businesses account for most net new job creation in the economy, but they also take credit for thousands of jobs created by already existing startups in which VFA fellows are merely embedded to help," Dearie told ABC News.
"In its first year, VFA trained 40 fellows; by 2017, more than 500 VFA fellows and alumni had launched dozens of companies and helped create thousands of jobs across the country," Lee told ABC News."The Obama White House even named Yang a Champion of Change in 2012 and a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship in 2015."Experts say tracking job creation can be a difficult task.
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