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AOC should learn from Andrew Yang about human value

By Tiana Lowe Doescher

Published April 3, 2019 1:48pm ET

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AOC should learn from Andrew Yang about human value — Andrew Yang, a candidate in the Democratic primaries for president, arrives at a town hall meeting sponsored by the Euclid chapter of the NAACP at Christ Lutheran Church in Cleveland. | (AP Photo/Phil Long)

The greatest teacher I ever had gave me some good advice before I went to college.

“When you start college, all of your peers are roughly worth nine dollars per hour,” he told my class. “Do everything you can to increase that value in those four years, and don’t hate your classmates who increased their economic value more than you did.”

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