[000:00:00;00] the there's 2 things we love in this country. it's cash and freedom. anybody's ever been poor here can tell you that in america, if you ain't got no cash, you ain't got no freedom shackle jack, i'll do a job that exploits you shackle to get interest right. this apps, you drag shackled to medical bills for ailments, so they could have their own student loans, their default the, you know, it's an oppressive in this heart and the state of affairs that lays people doing whatever they can just describe by because they don't have any other choice and that's not freedom, but a universal basic income can give you afraid of lots of free freedom to go back to school to learn new skills,

freedom to take care of and aging parents. the freedom to start a small business, the freedom to leave an abusive relationship, the freedom to just not have to worry about money. every single 2nd of every day. the bombing up until literally last 2 years of my life lives been like one emergency situation away from some place. financial catastrophe. basically, i just, i live in paycheck to paycheck, not having any extra money for any thing at all. and you know, things happen. my name is tre crowder. i got attention on the internet for these videos i made featuring a character called the liberal read drake. router little read. what's a try,

crowded long time. no scheme. i want to talk to you about something is deeply personal to my payables. lot people asked me what to think about like live matter. well, put simply i find that they do for a long time when i was a young adult, i didn't have health insurance, you know. and so i wouldn't do i intramural sports and stuff like that in college right. and sincerely because i was like, well, you know, when i blow my knee out or something, i'm screwed and those just those types of things just knowing that you're on the precipice. so if i take ruin all the time. yeah, it's extremely stressful. and i know for a fact just statistically that a lot of people in this country are live in that day to day. you know, all the time, only 41 percent of us adults have enough savings to cover a $1000.00 emergency. we have record numbers of americans who are on the verge of having their cars free, possess more than a 137000000 americans are facing financial hardship because of medical that my son

couldn't afford to live setting the saving medication he needed, but worsening on a planet picture is simply staggering. the pandemic is also causing many to go hungry. my bills are going to back up, but i'm going to be in trouble here. couple, a student loan debt in the united states has doubled 40 percent of americans. 65 and older are in default. that's always going to be there for me. personally, i've heard about the idea of the universal basic income. it was pretty immediately of the opinion. well, there you go, that's at least a solution because we're gonna have to do something. the idea is this. every citizen in this country would receive a $1000.00 a month every month, no strings attached that might seem far fetched to you, but it could be a potential improvement over some of our existing welfare programs that i grew up in only wrong. i'm grateful for him, but i kinda look back on those programs and food stamps and all that the same way that i look back on the final season, a game of thrones. i'm still glad that it exists,

but it could have and should have been so much better. we deserve better. you be, i is actually not a new idea. in america, you can trace it back to one of our founding fathers, thomas paint, you know, the guy who 1st convince people that american independence might be a good idea. he's not the only one. martin luther king junior was for you. we are one of answers. it seems to me is a guaranteed annual income, a guaranteed minimum income of people and pro family is about 1969. richard nixon even proposed an actual plan to congress. let us place a floor under the income of every family with children in america. and without those, the meanings souls 5 with no friends for human dignity, that soul bite, the lights well from the welfare children of the day. one state in america actually already has a form of basic income, alaska. each year they take

a portion of the states oil revenue and distributed to every man, woman and child, to be an example for the world there, and the lights and the lamps. those are the big, strangely proud of that because as a whole concept of people owning your resources, the government having to take the money back from the people instead of the government getting the money in parcel and moved out. and socialistic program is exactly the opposite of what some people term, the dividend to be socialistic. it's capitalistic village screen. okay, so they've got oil up in alaska, but how do we pay for basic income and the rest of the country? taxes? yeah, said it the dreaded t word, but yes, actually it's time to in corporate welfare, get big tech to pay its fair share and use tax mechanisms to create the strongest site in that the world has ever saved. and all these rich people can rest easy knowing the extra money they give back isn't going to some big solis government bureaucracy. it's going directly to the people social justice. get with it,

the ones that we will have from a small town a lot of times, especially in the south, it can end up in this like sort of a small town contest thing where it's like now my hometown smaller than yours. and i feel like that's an argument that typically when, because so it's really, really small. i remember saladas dislikes quite a little southern town with, you know, some charm to it. and the football team was good at the child square was, you know, just little mom and pop businesses, a store for us, that type of thing. and everything was fine. but at the beating heart of the towns economy was this big clothing factory where most people work and that's for my mom works best for me. i might ever caller

to come out there for a long, long time, and then i might tubs. my dad, he was, he was the head engineer, and my mom, she actually so have her body and so on that you talk cable. this worked osh kosh, osh kosh, asked kosh that, and if you heard of osh kosh by, gosh, or whatever, yeah, for decades, the center of the towns economy was large clothing factory and in the mid ninety's, after now i have to it my buckets down at midnight and went south of the border and we never recovered there's been no real industry that's come in there and the 20 plus years. and so, and as far as i'm aware, there's not anything major in that regard on the horizon so, so on. uh, in my opinion is like a textbook example of the top advice that would benefit a lot from a bicycle income and it also mistakes, but he thinks of people there would be all for it with it. i don't know that that is true. the,

there it is. say of the crime these they ask us for gosh, factories. yes. my gosh, it is. how long do you know how long it was here? the factory was here and when he close people at work there, 40 years, go ahead. after here it was in business up the street and there was a little wind blowing through town that maybe a factory was going to be close. and i mean people stop coming into the restaurant and spending 4 bucks on, you know, a sub or something like that. if it was 3 for $5.00, people stop spinning it. you know, you've got the cafe move on on that are running the video store in the car lot. and that by the time i graduated high school it's, it's literally all going to say and not all, not only is that all gone but like, you know, all of this stuff with mama are getting all strung out on the,

on the jail my, my life changed tremendously for the worse, just like everybody else is around here when that happens, you know, and like it affected like literally everything is pretty much the ripple effects other than that see? yeah, i know, you know, that was, i mean yeah, i was like the, the hits just kept on come and the saying, i think there will be a lot of people that will say, well, i know, i mean i don't know hand. yeah. i'm not looking for hand. well here's the white bring, bring the job back. that's what you need to do. politicians, but like, i mean, can you easily envision a lot of people responding to it that way? oh yeah, i can see that. right. well, i think that's going to be the problem. i would love to also see how they respond to that check. right, right. see what they did, right. presumably they biased or, you know,

finally get like the fine belt fixed on their car or whatever that i've been putting down for forever. but i'm saying they're going to go to some mechanic around here to do that. you know what i mean, like fear, radically a big portion of it would get like pump straight back in to just sure the general economy because they're gonna spend it on the things that they need, that they haven't been buying in a long time because they didn't have no money to do the idea of giving unconditional cash may not sit well with everybody. i know that's a shock or how does this so a paycheck every month, even if you do not have a job. i think it's a continuation towards the road of socialism in america welfare should be a 2nd chance and not a way of life. we're going to take from you over here to give to you over here because that's what we're going to do with the universal base again, come when you're texting people and redistributing wealth without marriage, that it encourages leasing exports. warren buffet to work hard wood floors. this guy to work hard, not handling them a check. you can not appreciate something fundamentally that you get for free.

the next know you. my distress is providing a guaranteed income to low income african american women in their families. the men know you must trust. it's doing this in the form of a $1000.00 a month for 12 months. i am so excited. it's like my 2nd child in the matter a month. so i have 2 kids and 2018 and they know you mothers trust is one of the it is taking a population that works so hard to be seen on a daily basis. and really saying we see, we honor your story, we believe in you and we trust that you know what it is that you need for your family.

the that will lead us from in this point, forgives. so support my kids. tell me pay bills and hell know if to straight from month to month when my mom was in abusive relationships, my dad was very, very small. so when i got into my relationship model issue was abusive and i was like, when never ever put my kids in jeopardy. oh, all in a relationship that i mean is not working. so you have to break the cycle somewhere . and so that's what i did. i'm going to jason and i brought this a $1000.00 a month. no strings attached. if you use i have, i would like them moves. i don't know. i just won't go crazy. that one night when me and my baby this way here,

we actually fell asleep on the couch and all seemed that's what was right here, right outside the door to us. yes. but the 1st thing that came to my mind was square up my babies, a se for my life, and i knew, but at the moment i'm nice to hear forever. i will get back to school, pay of some dis agency to raise my credit score so that i can get the home that i want for me and my little the what else seemed wrong? just don't to shape out because of the advocates and engagement because the trails when so many find themselves will

support. we choose to look for common ground, the to all of the individuals that we work with, living communities where they receive housing vouchers, we really are trying to figure out the impact them being assessed. when cache is infused into these situations where individuals are highly subsidized, but then also we're trying to get a better understanding of how the women themselves are able to show up. are they less stress? are they more engaged in their local community or they're more engaged in our kids school? are they more engaged in their own self care? are they able to now look towards careers and not just the job because they have their freedom the, the, the church. um

you pretty much get notified. getting the middle one dressed and ready taken. so the bus stop the least by 545, getting them off the school are actually coming back to the house. always when she's getting ready. probably arrive no later than 655 actually having to rush back home, get the baby ready to take your to my mom's house is entering the terrible toothache . but once you get that code and come along sir, come, let me see, let me see, can i see the rating myself and also be in place a like 720 some light rushing. the so i think of the lack of sleep is very challenging. i want to at least get to a point in my life where i'm actually working

a good paying job i wanna job is going to make is meet. i want to be able to save and you know, take trips and do all of the things too. so and the reason that i am a fan of guaranteed income because it is this idea that everybody is deserving. just by virtue of your being here, you deserve a life for you and your family can thrive. you deserve a life where you can actually dream. you deserve a life where you can actually so strings is going to help us really, really like really, really a lot. i'm very size about these are not really have too many like rules or just tell you what are you at and you have to spend it on or how much she have to say. let me say, and that's when i was on tanf the somebody's for gays,

you have to put this, this is for j as in transportation. well, he see that though, i see you here. you can say foods balance and pay lie. be like you can take food stamps and get your medicine. so is, is a big difference. being able to just go and do everything i need to go with is kind of exciting. i think most of america believes that our systems work. that's that we have welfare and we have these safety nets and they actually are doing what it is that they're supposed to be doing. and that's not true. that's actually a myth. most folks don't quite understand how complicated these various systems are in, in the complication of the systems that they're not wife. and they're just in effect that for example, if you're on 10 of your case worker could say ok, you have 2 weeks to get a job, but no support is provided in getting that job. no child care is provided. why you

are looking for the job. if you do not have a job within 2 weeks, you are sanctioned, in most cases that means that you will lose your smith for 90 days. what that means is that for 90 days you have no way of ensuring insurance household you are to have to take a moment lift the sink in. that's also why a lot of individuals choose not to fool with tanf because who can run the risk of not being able to feed their kids the need to reach the home. okay. and instead of recognizing that is the policies that are wrong. we're blaming the families, we're saying o families don't want to go to work or o family, someone or you know, have to take the drug test that we're requiring them to take because they're on drugs. now is none of that. if you went out and had conversations, you could actually really get to what the problems are with these policies that are

being implemented. i think our current and safety net system is not working. and so i believe that a guaranteed income is an opportunity for us to rewrite that system. the everybody deserves to be able to take care of their child. every body deserves to be able to have safe and adequate housing. everyone deserves to be able to depend on a meal, a society that cannot take care of its children, society, they cannot take care of its elders, society, that leaves people in the coal without options cannot call us of civil law. we're trying to elevate and push towards a dignity economy, an economy which focuses on the inherent dignity of every person and show that actually operates in the best interest of all citizens. we have to equip mothers to be able to care for their children. and the more we're able to do that, the more home society we're raising, the more hol,

circumstances and conditions where lifting up so that we can make certain that we create these dignity economies. we should see the us in america. we do have a welfare system in place to help people who are struggling financially, but it's a conditional system. you have to prove to the government that you truly need help . and if that doesn't immediately sound unfair to you, consider that different people's different financial lows. can be very wide ranging hard to quantifier typically time sensitive and overall, just generally speaking pretty damn complicated to sort out. luckily for them, every american knows that our government ex sales at resolving complex and nuanced issues and an efficient and judicious manner. rise as joe. now it's in fact is the opposite in our system as well and truly broken. but let's imagine for a 2nd that you are deemed worthy of receiving government simple. the minute you get

a job and your income increases that support will decrease. think about the incentives of that that can make it so that it doesn't make financial sense to take a job if it's a low paying job. if you are a single parent, you need child care for when you're working. you can be successful in your job, search and end up worse off than you were before when you were on government assistance alone. that's called a poverty trap. the universal basic income, on the other hand, is an unconditional system. you don't have to prove that you deserve anything. you don't have to constantly jump through bureaucratic hopes. you don't have to choose between working a job and actually being able to afford your bales because under you be i, everyone will always be better off with a job you be. i can be an economic slower on which we all can stay at the one to let you know we're having a townhome discussion and cook out tomorrow. heading out flyers for event. we're having tomorrow at the courthouse,

my name is alma so lucky and i'm an associate professor of practice in political science at n y u, shanghai. awesome. it's going to be right across the street at the courthouse. ok, and we're going to talk about ways of bringing economic vitality to town. so it's one of the thank you. a rate is people really understood with the basic income is i think it be great if this is something that they started to talk to candidates about as well. so that we can bring the broader attention to the idea based income and get the voices of ordinary people rather than just academics like me. the . the simplest way that i can explain a basic income is that it's like social security for the rest of us. a basic income would be a monthly payments that would go to everyone. i think if we just these details, right,

basic income can eliminate poverty. can increase economic security for working folks and can give a boost to local economies like the economy of selena. that sound good to you. doesn't sound too good to be true, the face. how sort of go by. exactly whatever. ok, here's one more fonder wedding ready to put money on your electric. and then, you know, you're wondering how you're going to get that back and i have no clue. i'm going to give that back. that would rather my bills be pays entering beyond my fingers,

such as i see it. i don't, i don't want to be rich by any means. i don't want as an entity to i just want to be able to pay my bills for my kids. that's all i want to be able to get the last thursday. my husband went to child support court over his oldest daughter, not power 3, but his oldest otis, when he's young, that judge, look, i just got a job and i'll start paying however much shortly to pay most of it. that wasn't good at that. here's the answer. it's to $180.00 days or until february can come up with $7700.00, a lot of money to be $10.00 is a lot of money to. so with hands on, what are you using for christmas? what do you, you know mean?

so they know you and they're still like the harder i try for my kids to be normal for further. and i go back in the one of the feminist arguments for basic income is that for very long time care work as being devalued. we've divided care work as a society and if we think about what really matters to include society to a society where people liable to flourish, then of course, realize that care shouldn't be put too much more on the center of all conception of it. good to say music income by being unconditional, enables people to make the choice to spend more time caring for others. the why will we tax the wealthy for basic income?

is because we take the wealthy or we, we resent them for their success. no, it's because they're the ones we're benefiting from the economy as it is right now . and they're the ones we're doing well. the are, we're not gonna take all their money. we're let them keep enough so that they are incentivized to keep doing the work that they do. we want to reward entrepreneurs. we want to reward people who take business risks and want to reward people who create jobs for other americans. but we take some of their, some of the gains that they're making and we share it with everybody. and that not only has the effect of reducing economic and security and eliminating poverty. it also has the effect of putting resources in the hands of the people who know best, what to do for their own communities.

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