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wealthy. children under 1% have a much higher chance of getting into an ivy league colleaugues. we will take a closer look with the brown university professor behind the study. not only is bart struggling with revenue, it is also struggling with drug overdoses on board. an expert will join us with numbers and solutions. remember the last time presidential candidate and her gang was in her studio? that was 2019. he was a complete unknown, talking about ubi. since then, universal basic income has entered the mainstream. andrew yang is back he is not running in 2024, but he is still talking. >> could make an announcement. >> but you are not.

it is something you want to talk about. it is about fixing american politics. welcome back. >> thank you. >> why are you back in the bay area? >> most of it is trying to fix politics, starting right here in the golden state. what i concluded after i ran for president was that are political system is not driving solutions. it is driving polarization, people fighting over ideological differences that really do not solve our problems, whether that is homelessness, education or affordability. we started the forward party nationwide to give people a new path forward, which is where most americans want to go. >> you founded the party with christine todd whitman, former governor of new jersey. >> we are about to celebrate our one year anniversary.

we have a lot of exciting things on tap. >> let's get to that. what is the party about? do you have position on issues ranging from gun-control to abortion? >> the platform is about unifying what people want and what they get. right now you can want various things and you probably are not getting them. that can apply to social issues, but it can also apply to homelessness, substance abuse. here in san francisco, there are national stories about the state of the city. you have had many retail businesses shut down in part because tourists are avoiding the city. there was a sign on the window saying please do not break this window because there is nothing in the car worth stealing. what direction is san francisco going to go, and what influence can we have on the future of our communities? right now, there is a political

party that pats you on the head and says you are stuck with us. >> a lot of people think that true. the issues you cited are real issues we are dealing with. but how does the forward party execute its work? what do you do to enable people to solve those problems if you do not run your own candidates? >> in some cases we do. here in california, we have congressional candidates. here in san francisco, if you wanted to raise your hand and say i am for this new approach, you can join the common sense party in california, which is the forward alliance member here in california. imagine someone running for office who does not owe the party machine anything. all they want to do was deliver what you want. >> how does one become a forward candidate?

>> if you want to with the forward party, the first thing you have to say is i am for getting out of the two-party system. i am here in california you already have a version of this, top two. about half of are independents. and they are not excited about what either party is doing. if you can say i want to open up the system and i want to deliver solutions regardless of the source, i am willing to work with people across the aisle, then that may make you a forward candidate. and then you can join us at forward party.com. >> these two parties do not have all the answers.

that sounds a little bit similar with no labels, which is the party getting some attention, saying they may run a ticket if they find neither party produces a party they can live with. how are you different? >> we are exactly different from no labels. they are taking a swing at the presidential and we are everything but the presidential. we are about school board, city council, county executive, mayoral. the forward party wants to give your real choice. >> are you saying a school board candidate, it does not matter if they think textbooks on lgbtq belong in schools? >> it is about whether they do not want to engage in the ideological back and forth and they want to do what the community wants. there was a school board race here in california with four

candidates. the democratic party endorsed the candidate on the far left. the other party endorsed the candidate on the far right. the one in the middle would have been the one they would have chosen if they had a sense of what the people were about. in the future, the forward party can endorse the person in the middle. >> the accusation is it can often play spoiler. >> the spoiler concern is grounded mainly in the presidential. we are not involved in the presidential. the reality is you have one party rule. 75% of the country has one party in charge. they say you know why you upset? it is because of those people

over there. the question is, why are 35-40% of californians thinking of leaving the state? it is because your leaders are not accountable to you and it means the problems get worse instead of better. >> how do you envision your work being done for 2024? >> we have 15 elected officials who have already said we are part of the forward party. we think that number will go to 50. i want you to imagine say i do not answer to party bosses i answer to you, the people of california. we have half of the r we need to be a party here in california. >> i want to talk to you about ubi. are you still put in work in to

track to get widespread adoption of that? >> i have people in d.c. who are lobbying for the enhanced child credit and that is what motivates me. if you imagine trying to address ai or climate change or any of the seemingly intractable problems, our political class does not need to deliver solutions in order to keep their office. that is true for poverty too. if you want real solutions, we will need to change our political system. >> i want to talk to you about the fact that technology was taken away millions of jobs. you warned it could have political consequences. at the time, we were mainly thinking call center jobs. in the last six months, we are seeing technology jobs affecting us here in the bay area.

what do you think is the solution? >> i think we need to humanize our economy as soon that is why the forward party exists. it is going to get worse, not better. >> what does that mean? >> it means not evaluating worth based on what the market says what we are worth. the market will dismiss more of us because ai will be able to do our jobs. it is going to apply to designers and a lot of other people. >> new thinkers. >> you will be the last to go. if you look at what is happening in los angeles right now, there are 160 thousand actors and writers i strike in large part of -- because of ai.

saying it is not the future they want. there are very few white color workers unionized in that way. >> i have 10 seconds. could you see yourself running for office again? >> as long as my wife is into it. >> andrew yang, thank you so much for coming in. >> coming up next, the supreme court overturning affirmative action and college admissions has opened up a can of worms. few things can beat

kristen: seven people died on

the bart system in the first three months of the year according to our data analyzed by the san francisco standard. they published a new article that puts the number in perspective and looks at what action bart is connecting to reverse the trend. joining us now is kevin. you reported the first three months of the year seven people died as i am the system. were they all drug overdoses? >> based on the descriptions given by bart, the vast majority are suspected overdoses or had signs of drug paraphernalia like foil or pipe around them. i cannot confirm whether all of them were drug overdoses. kristen: was this all inside the station? on the platforms come parking lots? >> the numbers provided by bart consisted of people who died in

the bart system. the majority people within the seven-figure were people found on the train, but that includes platforms too. kristen: when you talk about seven, how does that compare to past years? >> unfortunately, the trend is going up. from 2019 10-12 people who were found dead on the bart system. that nearly doubled in 2022. unfortunately, based on the current trajectory, we expect to see the number climbed further for 2023. kristen: does bart have an explanation. >> what they point to his a lot

of the factors impacting the fentanyl crisis and homeless issues around the bay. bart and other public transportation agencies have become places of refuge for people who are using drugs, people with substance abuse problems. that has become even more critical in the last couple of years. kristen: when you say refuge, do you mean a place where people can do it without any interference? what are you talking about? does bart have intervention people getting involved? >> bart has a division of its police department that consists of safety ambassadors and crisis intervention specialists that go around and speak and engage with people who are using drugs, but unfortunately since they are not

in uniforms and sworn officers, they do not have the ability to remove people from the system. they can call someone in the bart police department to do so but they only have the ability to ask people into services. we found a lot of the people suffering from drug addiction do not have many places to be, so they often are shuffled or directed to places like public transit, where they will not be hassled and then they end up using. kristen: is there any indication if these overdose deaths are impacting bart service or perhaps passengers views about bart? >> they are definitely impacting bart service.

there are quite a few medical emergency overdose reversals that they also do. every time something like that happens, it is a delay to the scheduled train. you have to bring in first responders, things like that. riders, they low. that is their ability to deal with homelessness and alcohol and drug use on the system. kristen: obviously, bart wil have to deal with that. we look forward to more of your reports with regards to solutions. thank you, kevin. you can get the repor

kristen: in the wake of the supreme court decision banning the use of this -- affirmative action in college admissions, colleges are looking how they are getting a boost. affirmative action for the wealthiest is alive and well in america's top universities. joining us live is one of the co-authors of the study, brown university professor john friedman. the study was from the cofounder -- nonprofit that you cofounded. what did you cover? >> our data has information on a half a million applicants to iv institutions of the past 20 years. it is in this new age of data that we are able to look with a new precision into exactly what has been going on at the school for a long time. kristen: you found your chances

are way better if you are from a 1% family in terms of wealth and way better if you are from 8.1 percent family. explain the numbers we are looking at. >> that is exactly right. we ask how likely are students from different backgrounds to be admitted to these schools holding the fixed qualifications in the background? even though students from different backgrounds seem to be qualified, students from wealthier families are being admitted more. kristen: when you say 1%, what is the threshold. >> these are families earning more than $600,000 per year on average for five years. and families earning more than $3 million per year.

kristen: if you are at the $3.5 million, you were to point to times more likely to get in compared to who? >> compared to the average student. what is remarkable is it is not just the average student, if you compare it to the bottom part of the graph, which is the upper middle income families, it is more like almost three. kristen: let us stay with this graph. if you are on the poor end, you have a slightly elevated chance of getting admitted. really kind of get hit. can you explain why that is? >> a lot of these schools like stanford have put a lot of emphasis on increasing the share of students coming from low

income families, especially students who are eligible for pell grants. what that has done is it has left a missing middle, where students who are coming from upper middle inco families these are students attending the schools that much lower rates than you would expect just based on act tests and sat tests. kristen: the extreme wealth advantage, how does it compare to the legacy advantage? >> we find that legacy students are between 3-5 times likely to be admitted. part of that advantage for those high income students is because they are more likely to be benefiting from that legacy advantage. it turns out advantage to high

income legacy students is larger to more middle income legacy students. kristen: how about the athlete advantage? >> it is a little bit calculate an admissions rate because the weight schools admit athletes involves a preclearance process, where many of them have signed a letter of intent before they apply to the school. it looks like they are four times more likely to be admitted to the schools. kristen: when you have an acceptance rate that shoots up at the top 1%, it cannot just be better prep. a lot of people pointed to if they are wealthier, they probably have better prep, tutors. but that does not explain this. >> that is right.

this comparison is among students that have the same test scores. if you thought that students from high income families are getting better test scores because they are able to take the test multiple times or they have a tutor, that you might not want to compare kristen: people think the office that accepts the donations check must be talking to the admissions office. >> the three factors we find that explains the spike at the top are the advantages given to legacy students, recruited athletes and then the role of nonacademic factors, like extracurriculars, play in student admission. we do not find there is a large role for the pure donations. i am not saying it is not

happening because there has been other work that identifies those types of cases, but we do not find a large role for it. kristen: we have less than a minute. why is it important to know this? we tell kids will not determine your success in life. but does it? >> part of the paper f what is the effect of going to one of these schools? we find it increases your chance of getting to the top of income distribution and working at a prestigious firm. when you have less diverse students, that translates into a less diverse group of leaders in our society down the road. that is why i think these admission practices are important to understand. kristen: now we have 10 seconds. i will ask people to take a look

at the report. professor friedman, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you so much for having me. kristen: we will

joining us for getting answers today. we will be here every weekday at 3:00 answering questio tonight, severe thunderstorms and flash flooding slamming the northeast as we come on the air. the storms moving in late today. and during rush hour. washington, d.c. to philadelphia, new york to boston. strooelts flooded. reports of major delays tonight at airports across the region.