every single 2nd of every day, with fleming up until literally last 2 years of my life might have been like one emergency situation away from complete 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 tri crowder little red, tri crowded long time, no scheme. i want to talk to you about something. it's deeply personal to me. pails, law people ask me what to think about bio lab matter. well, put simply, i think that i 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 like in a mural sports and stuff like that at college. i sincerely because i was like, wow, 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 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 repossess more than a 137000000 americans are facing financial hardship because of medical debt. my son couldn't afford the life sitting the saving medication. he needed, the worsening on a planet picture is simply staggering. the pandemic is also causing many to go hungry. my bills are gonna, but i'm going to be in job

a 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 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 going to 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 be one of and seems to me is a guaranteed annual income, a guaranteed minimum in come all people, all families of our country. 969. 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 demeaning souls cycling france for human dignity that so bite the lives well for welfare children to day. one state in america actually already has a form of basic in alaska. each year they take a portion of the states, oil revenue and distributed to every man. woman and child, should be an example for the world emulate. last week, strangely proud of that because it's a whole new and stuff to people loaning the resources and the 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 to like screen. okay, so they've got oil up in alaska, but how do we pay for basic income and the rest of the country? tax is. 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. i'll tell we were from a small town a lot, especially in the south. it can end up in this like sort of a small town contest thing where it's like now my home town 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 like quaint little southern town with, you know, some charm to it. and the football team was good. the tailed squire 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 tales economy was this big clothing factory where most people worked. and that's for my mom worked. that's for as long as any the work and my neighbor caller to come out there for a long time. and then am i toughs? my dad he was, he was the healing engineer and my mom, she actually so ever body and saw that you top table. he's worked oshkosh, oshkosh, that cost that 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 insensible. 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, you say osh kosh vegas factory? yes, my gosh, you did. how long do you know how long it was here? the fact he was here and when he clothes, 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 $345.00, 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 gone. he was saying and not all, not only is that all gone but like, you know, all the stuff with mama are getting all strong. i'll be on the jail him. i my life changed tremendously for the worse just like everybody else is around here. when that happened, well, i like it affected like literally everything and pray, learn the ripple in your data. yeah. i know, you know, that was, i mean, yeah,

all of the hits just kept on common with, i'm saying, i think there will be a lot of people that will say, i wanna, i mean, i don't know hannah. yeah, i'm looking for a wife bringing bringing a job like that's what you need to do politicians. what 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 larger than i would love to also see how they respond. if he could kick an invoice and ride his last day, right to see what they did with the 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 into just sure the general economy. because there has been an

old 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 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. the universal basic income when you're taxing people and redistributing well without marriage, that encourages leasing what forced more buffet to work hard workforce this guy to work hard, not handling them a check. you cannot appreciate something fundamentally that you get for free.

ah magnolia mothers trust it providing a guaranteed income to low income african american women and their families. 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, i had to give them 2018 in that no you mother's trust is one of them. it is taking a population that worked so hard to be seen on a daily basis. and really saying, we see you, 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 kids are tell me pay bills and hell know to straight from month to month

with where mama will in of the obvious relationship. i, they, it was very, very 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 not working. or you have to break the cycle somewhere and so therefore i be it more to jason and i broke the like does a $1000.00 a month? no strings attached? if you use a hero, i will, i dare. mays. i don't know. i just won't go crazy. with that one night when ma'am a baby. so here we actually fell asleep on the couch and oh, seemed less was right here. i else heard the door. josh, yes. i had to 1st didn't,

they came to my mom was square my baby after you for my life. and i knew like at the moment i'm now stay here forever. i will get back to school, pay off some days and continue to raise my credit score. so that i can get the home that i want for me and my load with her is your media a reflection of reality in the world transformed what will make you feel safer? isolation for community. are you going the right way? or are you being led to some way to direct? what is true? what is great?

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la la la la, la, a. my mama, lynn, my name is in with it. 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 on isn't teased 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 engaged in their 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 the job because they held their freed ah more easily in shirt cameo? pretty much getting up a fire, getting all the middle one dressed. there were 80 sections of the buddhist abilene by 545. the name of the school were actually come back to the house. oh, this one she's getting ready. roblis. why? of malevolence? $655.00. actually having to rush back home, get the baby ready to take your so my mom's house is entering the terrible tooth when you get there called and come along sir. come let me see, let me see, can i see the ready myself in also be in clay as

a like 720 some like rushing. oh did you? oh, so i think the lack of sleep is mary challenge and i want to least get to a point in my life where i'm actually working a good paying job. i wanna job this is going to make is me. i want to be able to save it, you know, take trips and do all the things too. so in a reason that i am a fan of guaranteed in calm 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 drive, you deserve a life where you can actually dream you deserve a life where you can actual are. so streams is gonna help was really, really like really,

really alive. i'm very side about these. i'm not really hearing too many like rules are just tear you or you, you have to spend it on or how much she have this me. let me say. and i said i was on time. if this money's for gays, you have to put this, this is for j. as in transportation work, he see the doctor. i see you only, you're not here. you can't say fools, 1000 pale, i be alike. 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. ris is going to be exciting. i think most of america believe that our systems work that we have welfare and we have these safety nets and they actually are doing what 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 the complication of the system, but they're not why they're just ineffective. for example, if you're on pena, in your case, worker could say ok, you have 2 weeks to get a job, but no supported provided and getting that job. no child care is provided. when you're looking for that job. if you do not have a job within 2 weeks, you are thanks. and in most cases that means that you will lose your net for 90 days. that what that means is that for 90 days you have no way of ensuring that sure household, your kids have take a moment list as thinking and that's also why a lot of individuals choose not to fool with tana. because who can run the risk of not being able to feed their kid around the story home.

okay. and instead of recognizing them as the policies that are wrong, were blaming the families were saying, oh family. so i want to go where are, oh, families don't want to, you know, have to take the drug test that were required in the take because they are on drugs . now it's 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 mean, i think our current safety net system is not working. and so i believe that a guaranteed income is an opportunity for us to rewrite this 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 cannot take care of its children, society, they cannot take care of its elders. a society that leaves people in the coal without options cannot call itself 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 and an efficient and judicious manner, right? as joe, now it's in fact is the opposite and our system is well and truly broken. but let's imagine for a 2nd, you are deemed worthy of receiving government support. the minute you get a job and your income increases that support will decrease. think 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 bales. because under you be i, everyone will always be better off with a job you be. i can be an economic floor on which we all can stand. i was let you know we're having a town hall discussion and cook out for me out flyers for event. we're having tomorrow at the courthouse, my name is almost lucky and i am an associate professor of practice in political science at n y u shanghai. also 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 towns lakes on . 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 of income and get the voices of ordinary people rather than just academics like me.

either one of 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 that sound good to you? the sound too good to be true. yeah. mm mm. for with faith

hope in are sort of go by. exactly one of them. okay. here's one on your wedding area 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 that back, but would rather my bills be paid entering me on my finger precious. i say it, i don't, i don't want to be rich by any means. i don't want and handed him, i just want to be able to pay money for my kids. that's all i want to be over here . last tuesday, my husband went to charge for court over his oldest daughter, not our 3, but his oldest oldest one, asia that judge. look, i just got a job and i'll start paying, however much shortly to pay a month. that wasn't good enough. that he has been sent to her

a days or until his family can come up. $7700.00 is a lot of money to me. $10.00 is a lot of money to. so with him gone, what do you use for christmas? what he knew no mean to is still like the harder are charged for my kids to be normal. the further they go back in one of the feminist arguments for basic income is that for 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 a good to say be the kingdom by being unconditional, enables people to make the choice to spend more time caring for others. why will we tax 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 in 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 i was sure thing wrong when i just don't know if you have to figure out is being becomes the advocate an engagement. it was betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground o in 2022. the italian government approved a package of military aid to ukraine,

coordination with nita to help ukrainians defend themselves and fight back about 150000000 euros. well, i make a week, almost. even i told me bombs are hearing all the same nato and the u. f with the ones that people will die just for make money. the one that has been yes, because otherwise you must, you got for if you go through and i she thought completed. i mean there's water damage. you thought if you need to be done to get them for the month is, will dollars more sir? me, my show, it was wrong tool or able offer. zachary law lesser opinion polls show that over 70 percent of italians are against military support for ukraine. i landed in confront with the date for that last or if i don't a letter yet,

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