When Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang looks out into the crowd at his rallies, he often notices a trend: There are a lot of young people staring back.

Currently polling at 3% nationally with over $1.7 million in individual donations, Yang has officially qualified for the Democratic primary debates. He attributes much of his traction in the crowded primary field to his throng of young supporters—they call themselves the “Yang Gang”—who have taken it upon themselves to promote his candidacy through memes, songs, and music videos.

“I’ve been described as the Internet candidate,” Yang tells Teen Vogue. “A lot of people have told me they’ve found out about me from memes, which, of course, are naturally more accessible for young people.”

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Yang says his appeal among young people can also be explained by his career. He is the founder of Venture for America, a nonprofit that places recent college grads at startups in emerging cities in the United States.

“I’ve worked with young people for the last 20 years,” he says. “I think I naturally am somewhat more youthful in energy, even than those other candidates who might be of my generation, just because I’ve literally just been surrounded by 20-something-year-olds for the last 17 years.”

Members of the Yang Gang often sport hats that say “MATH” in capital letters.

“The genesis of MATH hats was me saying that I’m the opposite of Trump, as an Asian man who likes math,” Yang says, as he enjoys using a lot of facts and figures in his political remarks. When members of his team realized MATH could become an acronym, they decided to go with “Make America Think Harder,” an obvious challenge to Trump’s signature “Make America Great Again.”

Yang puts that idea of making Americans think into practice on his extensive policy page, where he proposes programs that feed into his vision, which he calls “human capitalism,” which focuses on maximizing “human well-being and fulfillment.”

His signature policy issue, for which he has come to be known and which sets him apart from the positions of most of the other candidates, is Universal Basic Income, which he calls Freedom Dividends. Under that plan, every American over the age of 18 would receive $1,000 per month from the government.

Those $1,000 per month payments are not meant to replace a salary, he says, but rather to serve as a supplement to a person’s income.

“Having $1,000 per month to spend in the economy, in addition to everyone else having that $1,000 to spend, would end up creating over 2 million jobs in our communities just because most of that money would get pumped right back into local goods and services,” he explains. “Every bodega, yoga studio, bar…those are the places where that money would be spent, and with that money they could hire more people.”

In this time of what Yang calls “unprecedented technological and economic changes,” he says universal basic income is essential to helping Americans withstand the trend of automating of jobs that wipe out careers in industries including trucking, retail, and food. His Freedom Dividends would present a choice to welfare and social program beneficiaries.

“My plan is much larger and more sweeping than any other UBI proposal that anyone has been arguing for,” he says. “The only overlap is that if you’re already receiving benefits and you decide to opt in for Freedom Dividend, then you have to decide between those two things.”

Though he is currently the only candidate who has made UBI a prominent part of his platform, he hopes his presence in the field can push others to buy in, even if he does not become the Democratic nominee.

Yang says such economic policies are necessary in this moment of student debt reaching crisis levels, with over 44 million people owing over $1.5 trillion.

“One of the main reasons I’m running for president is that we’ve been shafting young people and then blaming young people themselves for it,” he says. “It’s perverse and it’s immoral and it needs to stop.”

Yang says our economy has stopped working for young people in particular. He talks about how they are told they have to get good grades and go to the best colleges, though college costs continue to skyrocket, and acceptance rates at many colleges are at all-time lows.

With more of his signature emphasis on statistics, Yang says that college graduates leave with an average debt load of $37,000 in student loans that normally can’t be discharged through bankruptcy. They’re then thrust into an uncertain job market, he says, where some research has shown that 94% of those new jobs are temporary, gig, or contract, and 41% of recent college graduates are underemployed, doing a job that doesn’t even require a college degree.

“It’s not a coincidence that our teenagers are experiencing record levels of anxiety, depression, and stress,” he says. “It’s all tied together.”

Yang questions why we would allow such a system to exist when it only benefits the lenders, along with the small group of powerful executives behind them.

“Is it really the case that we want to suppress the future of our country and keep young people from starting families, and buying homes, and starting businesses so that the financial institutions can bring in a bit of extra profit?” he asks.

Yang has solutions to the problem. He’s proposing a “10×10 Student Loan Emancipation Act,” through which graduates could choose to settle their debt by paying 10% of their salary per year for ten years, after which the balance would be forgiven. He’s also proposing blanket forgiveness of a portion of the national student loan debt.

“When someone asks me where the money would come from, I say the same place we got the trillions to bail out the big banks during the financial crisis of 2008,” he says. “This is like a ‘Bailout for the People,’ but unlike the Wall Street Bailout, this money would actually be going into our young people’s hands and would stimulate the economy.”

As Yang continues to ramp up his campaign, he intends to keep highlighting his detailed policy proposals. He thinks it’s important to talk about his ideas—even some that others might deem overly specific, such as revitalizing American shopping malls, making Washington D.C. a state, empowering MMA fighters, investing in America’s mental health, and “the Penny Makes No Cents” policy (getting rid of pennies). Additionally, he’d prefer more free services, including marriage and financial counseling for all Americans.

It’s his way of introducing himself to the people.

“While other candidates might tell their biographical stories, I prefer to explain my vision in granular detail, so they see what the country might look like with me as president,” he says.