just described by because they don't have any other choice and that's not freedom, but a universal basic income can give you free lots of free freedom to go back to school to learn new skills for them to take care of an aging parents. the freedom to start a small business to freedom, to leave an abusive relationship, the freedom to just not have to worry about money. every single 2nd of every day. ah . warming up until literally last 2 years of my life has been like one emergency situation away from complete financial catastrophe. basically, i just 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,

got attention on the internet for these videos i made, featuring a character called the liberal read try crowd or little read. try crowder long time, no scheme. i want to talk to you about something. it's deeply personal to me. pales lot people asked me what to think about bio matter. well, put simply i find that i do for a long time when i was a young adult, i didn't have health insurance, you know. and so i, i wouldn't do in mural sports and stuff like that. at college, sincerely because i was like, well, you know, when i blow money out or something, i'm screwed and those just those types of things just knowing that you're on the precipice of flag 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 don't have enough savings to cover a $1000.00 emergency. we have record numbers of american are on the verge of having

their cars repossess more than a 137000000 americans are facing financial hardship because of medical debt. my son couldn't afford the life saving medication he needed. the worsening on a planet picture is simply staggering. the panoramic is also causing many to go hungry. my bills are going to back up and i'm going to be in job a couple. a student loan debt in the united states has doubled 40 percent of americans, $65.00 and older are in default. that's always going to be there for me. personally, i heard about the idea of a universal basic income and 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 can 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 deserved better u b, i is actually not a new idea. in america, you can trace it back to one of our founding fathers, thomas paine. 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. one of them seems to me, is a guaranteed annual income, a guaranteed minimum income, all people and families of our country. $969.00, richard nixon even proposed an actual plan to congress. let us play so for under the income of every family, with children in america, and without those demeaning souls cycling of france for human dignity that so bite the lives well for the welfare children with 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 distribute it to every man. woman and child should be an example for the world or emulate them though i ask who's gonna be extremely proud of it because it's a whole new concept of people owning the resources and government having to take their money back from the people instead of government getting the money and partially moved out and socialistic program is exactly the opposite of what some people term, the dividend to be socialistic. it's capitalistic elite 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, i said it the dreaded t word, but yes, actually it's time to incorporate welfare get big tech to pay its fair share and use tax mechanisms to create the strongest safety net. the world has ever st. and all these rich people can rest easy knowing the extra money they give back isn't

going to some big sold us government bureaucracy. it's going directly to the people social justice. get with it. mm hm. well tell me, well i'm 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 i typically win because it's really, really small. i remember saladas this psych clients little southern town with you know, some charm to it and the football team was good. the tailed squire was, you know, just little mama, businesses a store for us, that type of thing. and everything was fine. but at the beating heart of the town was economy was this big clothing factory where most people worked. and that's for my mom were for

a lot and mean it didn't work and my neighbor collar to come out there for a long time. and then at my tips, my dad he was, he was the head engineer. and my mom, she actually so ever body and saw that you talk to him, he's worked oshkosh, oshkosh, they had asked osh that. and if you heard osh kosh, my gosh, or whatever. yeah, for decades, the center, the towns economy was large, cloud and factory in, in the mid ninety's after now have to it made like a stoner at midnight and went south of the border. and we never recovered. there's been no real industry that's come in there in the 20 plus years since and as far as i'm aware, there's not anything major in that regard on the horizon. so selina, in my opinion is like a textbook example of the top place that would benefit a lot from a basic income. and that also from

a sensible you'd think to people there would be all for it would. but i don't know that that is true. there it is saying the crime is there osh kosh, my gosh, factory, yes, my gosh, you did. how long do you know how long it was here? the factory was here and when he close, people had worked there. 40 years, go ahead. after here i was in business up the street and there was a little wind blowing through town that may be a factory was going to be close. and i mean people stopped coming in to the restaurant in spend in for 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 may mon pod daddy are running the video store in the car lot. and that by the time i graduate high school, it's literally all go on. it was sad and not all,

not only is that all gone but like a, you know, all the stuff with mama are getting all strong. i'll be on the jail him my, my life changed tremendously for the worse. just like everybody else is around here . when that happened, it was like it affected like literally everything and pray, learn the ripple linux on their dad that see. yeah, i know, you know, that was, i mean yeah i was, i just, the hits just kept on common with . i'm saying, i think there will be a lot of people that will say, well, no, i mean i don't know hannah. yeah, i'm not looking for hand. well, i just want to why bring bring the jobs 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 gonna be like, i would love to also see how they respond if he could kick them in once and ride in

slide day, right. and see what they did with gra. presumably they basta, or you know, finally get like the fan belt fixed on their car or whatever that i've been put in for forever. but i'm saying they're going to go to some mechanic around here to do that. you want to main, like theoretically a big portion of it would get like pump strike back in to just cure the general economy. because there has been in all things that they need, that they haven't been buying in a long time because i had no money to do the idea of giving unconditional cash might not sit well with everybody. i know that's a shocker. how does this out? 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. well, there should be a 2nd chance, 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. the universal basic income when you're taxing people and redistributing well without marriage, that encourages leasing what force more buff it to work hard? what force this guy work hard, not handling them

a check. you cannot appreciate something fundamentally that you get for free. with magnolia mothers trust it, providing a guaranteed income to low income african american women in their family. so the medical you my distress, it's doing this in the form of a $1000.00 a month for 12 months. i am so excited if like my 2nd shell in the matter of months that i had 2 kids in 2018 in that no you mothers trust is the one of them. it is taking a population that worked so hard to be seen on a daily basis and really saying we see, we honor your stories, we believe in you and we trust that you know what it is that you need for your

family. now you there will be all tremendous break for gay is so support my key it's ah, tell me pay bills and hell know if to straight from month to month with where my mom will in of the obvious relationship. my day it was very rare of my mom. so when i got my relationship marliss, you was abusive and i was like, i would never ever put my key in jeopardy of or in a relationship. and i mean is now working for you have to break the cycle somewhere . and so therefore i be it more to jason and i broke as like there's a $1000.00 a month no strings attached. if you use a hero, i will i there. mays. i don't know. i just all go crazy.

lou. oh, that one night when mamma babies were here, we actually fell asleep on the couch. and oh, same last almost right here. i else heard the door. da shots i had to 1st in they came to my, my was grant my baby every for my life and i knew like at the moment i'm now stay here forever. i will get back in school pay out some days and continue to raise my credit score so that i can get the home that i want for me and my load was her

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so mine is gonna be the one else about this even with we will man in the european union, the kremlin media machine, the state aunt, rush up to date and school r t spoke neck, given our video agency, roughly all band on youtube and pinterest and we could pull the question, did you think even close to chat with all of the individuals that we work with, living communities where they receive housing vouchers, we really are trying to figure out the impact and benefits when cash um 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 had a more days now? local community, are there more engaged in our kids school? are they more engaged in their own self care? are they able to now look towards career and not just a job because they held their freedom? ah, more recently in shirt. oh, pretty much getting up a fire. getting all the middle one just ready, take him to the bus. stop police by 545, dean them off the school were actually come back of the house. oh this one she's getting ready for a bulls. right? no lame is 655, actually having to rush back home, get the baby ready to take your so my mom's house is entering the. busy terrible tooth when you get back cold and i'm along, sir,

come let me see, let me see, can i see the ready myself in also being clay as a like 720 some light rushing. oh did you? oh. so i think the lack of sleep is rare challenge and i want to lease get to a point in my life where i'm actually working a good paying job. i want a job. it's just gonna make is me. i want to be able to save it. you know, take trib, so do all the things to so in a reason that i am a fan of guaranteed income because it is this idea that everybody is deserve it. just by virtue of your being here, you deserve a life where you and your family can bribe, you deserve a life where you can actually dream you deserve

a life where you can actually so strings. it's going to help us really, really like really, really a lot on very side about these. i'm not really hearing too many like loser. just tell you or you you have to spend it on or how, how much she have this me let me say. and i said i was on time if this money's for gave you have to put this, this is for j as in transportation. well, he sees a doctor. i see you early little tears. you can't say food stamps in pale. i be a like, he can't take food stamps and get your medicine. so it is a big difference. being able to just go and do everything i need to go with is gonna be exciting. i think most of america believes that our systems work that we have welfare and we have these safety nets and they actually are doing

what it said they're supposed to be doing. and it's not true. that's actually a myth. most folks, some quite understand how complicated these various systems are in the complication of these systems, but they're not warped and they're just in effect for example, if you're on tana your case worker cafe, okay. you have 2 weeks to get a job, but no support is provided in getting that job. no child care is provided why you're looking for that job. if you do not have a job within 2 weeks, you are sanctioned. in most cases that means that you will lose restlessness for 90 days. that what that means is if we're 90 days, you have no way of ensuring the insured household. your kids have food, take a moment, little as their st in. there's also while a lot of individuals choose not to fool with tana, because who can run the risk of not being able to feed their kids.

oh, sorry. oh. okay. and instead of recognizing that is the policies that are wrong were blaming the families, were saying, oh family, someone at o. r o family, someone or you know, have to take the drug test that were required in the tape because they are 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 with. i think our current safety nets isn't, is now working. and so i believe that a guaranteed income is an opportunity for us to rewrite a system everybody deserves to be able to take care of their child. everybody deserves to be able to have safe and adequate housing. everyone deserves to be able to so depend on a meal, a society that can not take care of its children, society,

they cannot take care of its elders. a society that leaves people in the cold without options cannot call is so civilized we're trying to elevate and push towards a dignity economy and economy, which focuses on the inherent dignity of every person and show that 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 whole society we're raising, the more whole circumstances and conditions where lifting up so that we can make certain that we create these dignity economies. we should say, ah, 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 woes can be very wide ranging hard to quantify, 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 in an efficient and judicious manner, right? as job. now it's in fact is the opposite in our system as well and truly broken. but let's imagine for a 2nd, the you are deemed worthy of receiving government support. the minute you get a job and your income increases, that support will decrease, sank about the incentives of that i can make it so that 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. be 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 bills. because under u. b i, every one will always be better off with a job you be. i can be an economic floor on which we all can stay at one to let you know we're having a town hall discussion and cook counselor. i'm handing out flyers for event. we're having tomorrow at the courthouse. my name is alma lucky and i'm an associate professor of practice and political science at n y u shanghai. asa, it's going to be right across the street at the courthouse, a pan. we're going to talk about ways of bringing economic vitality to towns likes lawana. i think it was great if people really understood what the basic income is. i think it be great if this was something that they started to talk to candidates about as well. so that we can bring broader attention to the idea based

income and get the voices of ordinary people rather than just academics like me a the simplest away like explain a basic income is that it's like social security for the rest of us. a basic income would be a monthly payment that would go to everyone. i think if we get 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. does it sound good to you? that doesn't sound too good to be true. yeah. mm mm. for waiting or faith.

hope in our sort of go by. exactly one. okay, here's one man on your wedding, you re 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 get that back. would rather my bills we paid entering me on my finger. should i say it? i don't, i don't want to be rich by any means. i don't. one of them ended him. i just want to be able to pay money for my kids. that's all i want to be here. last tuesday by has been charged for court over his oldest daughter, not our 3, but his oldest oldest one, asia that judge. look, i just got a job. i'll start paying. however,

which will pay that wasn't good enough that he is in the $180.00 days or until his family can come up with $700.00. $700.00 is a lot of money to me. $10.00 in a lot of money to show him gone. what do you use for christmas? what he knew and no mean to is still like, no harder our dryer for my kids to be normal. the further they go back in one of the feminist arguments for basic income is that for a very long time, care work as being devalued. we've devalued 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 should be put much more on the center of our conception of good to say basie kingdom by being unconditional enables people to make the choice to spend more time caring for others. why will we touch the wealthy for basic income? is because we hate 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 . they're the ones we're doing well. ah them, i will not take all their money. well, let them keep. and after 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. we 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 insecurity 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. when our children seem wrong, when i just don't know any world that we have to feed out, this thing becomes the advocate and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground.

i was just a rehab which are ours, would make you know, i'm not know, let you to really care about me. if you care about the play. i wish somebody could just tell me why her hair or hatred, lynchings, beating poverty. why supremacy is the disgusting ambulance? the people in mississippi voted on a flyer and 65 percent of the people voted to keep the car and flag our purpose is to defend the good name and the confederates held because of these monuments. the tc everywhere are not, can, they're not monuments to the can better go their monuments to the, to the soldiers to the data. you know, if we're going to be offended by everything,

every negative part of our history, we have to get rid of everything a pre will never be a victory for our russia. wait for solution with my tree lane. it's not done, but look at 8. nina crane war is a proxy war. this is a war between russia and the united states. as amman are made, it comes to not should get done in cotton. you, boy, america forces are and you're not in europe to gauge in conflict of russian forces . the american forces are here and defend nato allies. what happens that nato escalates even more indiscretion? military operations become a war when you, but they'll set of rules that dealership and that'll that doesn't is my story. i see it that i see your to us. thank you. custody of, of me with so i, you sleep issue unique and you stuff to be

a more than once you miss a home is still furnished or in your sewage. never sneaker for a girl whose name. mm hm. most people, i know they laid their 8 hour job and go home and relax that i have about 3 or 4 more hours to go. so i just keep the, my clothes changed my clothes, 1st job, go to the 2nd and the dis keeps and hastening from. want to go home. oh, what's the book about this tom? i well.