ah ah, there's 2 things we love in this country. it's cash and freedom. anybody that'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 shackle to a job that explored you. shackled too. she had interest right to sab, she drag shackled to medical bills for ailment, so old they could have their own student loans, their defaulting young. it's an oppressive and disheartening state of affairs that lays people doing whatever they can just to scrape back because they don't have any other choice. and that's not freedom, but a universal basic income can give you freedom, lots of freedom, 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. ah wyoming, 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, dry crowder little red, tri crowded long time, no scheme. i want to talk to you about something that's deeply personal to me.

pails, law, people, that's been what i like about black lives matter. well, put simply, i think that they 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 like intramural sports and stuff like that at college. since really 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. so 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 u. s. 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 going to back up and i'm going to be enjoyable here. couple student loan debt in the united states has doubled 40 percent of americans. 65 and older are in default. that's always gonna be there for me. personally, i've 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 kind of 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 way deserved better. you be,

i is actually not a new idea. it in america, you can trace it back to one of our founding fathers, thomas pain. you know, the guy who 1st convince people that american independence might be a good idea. he's not the only one. martin luther in junior was for you. we are now one of vans is it seems to me is a guaranteed annual income or guaranteed minimum income fall old people enfold families of our country. 1969. richard nixon even proposed an actual plan to congress. let us play so far under the income of every family with children in america. and without those demeaning souls filing a bronze for human dignity that sold by the lives a wealth of welfare children, the day one state in america actually already has a form of basic inc dock, alaska. each year they take a portion of the states oil revenue and distribute it to every man, woman and child bill example for the world emulate. the alliance goes over big,

serenely proud of it because it's a whole new concept to 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 grow. greer 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 seen. 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 them. i'll tell we, well, i'm from a small town,

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 salinas this psych client's little southern town with you know, some charm to it and the football team was good. the tailed squire was you know, just little mamma. businesses restore 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 were outlawed as many the people work and my neighbor caller to come out there for a long time. and then am i tiffs my dad, he was, he was the heading engineer,

the mom she actually so ever body and saw that you talk to these work oshkosh, oshkosh, that, and nascar that and if you heard oshkosh, my gosh, or whatever. yeah, for decades the center of 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 essentially you think that people, there would be all for it with, but i don't know that that is true. there it is. saying the crime, you say osh gosh, my gosh, 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 into the restaurant and spend in 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 may mon pod daddy or run in the video store in the car lot. and that by the time i graduate high school, it's literally all gone. it was sent and not all, not only is that all gone but like, you know, all the stuff with mama, her getting all strung out go to jail. yeah. i my wife changed tremendously for the worse. just like everybody else is around here. when that happened. well,

and like it affected like literally everything and pretty much the ripple linux and other than that see yeah, i know, you know, that was, i mean yeah, on such stuff 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 wanna handle. yeah. i'm not looking for hand. well, i just want to warrant bringing, bringing the jobs back. that's what you know to do politicians, but like, i mean, can't 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 olaja laura. i would love to also see how they respond. if he could have kick an invoice right last day, right. let's see what they did, right? 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 don't, i mean, like theoretically a big portion of it would get, like pop strike back in to just sure 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 force warren buffett to work hard workforce this guy to work hard, not handling them a check. you cannot appreciate something fundamentally that you get for free. with

magnolia, my distress, if providing a guaranteed in time to low income african american women in their family. so the med, no. you my distress, 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 shell in the matter of months. i had 2 kids in 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, 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 mm. there will be gods. tremendous break for gay is so support my kids. oh,

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 the very, very small so when i got my license, you'll marliss, you was abusive and i was like, i would never ever put my key in jeopardy over in a relationship that i mean is not working for. you have to break the cycle somewhere and so therefore i be it more jason and i broke the like dis, a $1000.00 a month. no strings attached. if you use a hero, i would like them means i don't know. i just won't go crazy. with that one night when mamma basis or a here we actually fell asleep on the couch. and oh,

seemed less almost 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 in school pay off some days and continue to raise my credit score so that i can get the home that are long for me and my load with a

my name with a when i was wrong. when i just don't know if we have to figure out this thing because the advocate and engagement, it was the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground.

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? are they 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 careers and not just a job because they hail their freedom? ah, more easily in shirt. oh, pretty much getting up a fire, getting all the middle one juris there were 80 jacobs of the bus stop police by 545

. getting them off the school were actually come back of the house. oh, this one she's getting ready. roblis, we're right now layman's 655. 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 back cold and come along sir. come, let me see, let me see, can i see d rady myself and also being play as a like saving 20 some like rushing. oh did you? oh so i think the lack of sleep is very challenging. i want to lease 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 trib. so do all the things too. so in a reason, but 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 see those dreams is going to help us really, really like really, really alive. i'm very silent about these. i'm not really hearing too many like rules or just tear you or you, you have to spend it on or oh well 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 terms of asian work. he sees a doctor. i see you early, your little tears. you can't say food 1000 pale. i be

a like he can't 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 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 they're supposed to be doing. and that's not true. that's actually a myth. most folks, some 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 panel your case worker could say, okay, you have 2 weeks to get a job, but no support is 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 thankful. in most cases that means that you will lose your net for 90 days

. what that means is there for 90 days. you have no way of ensuring that your household, your kids have to take a moment less the 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 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 r o family, someone or you know, have to take the drug test that were required to take because they are on drugs. now is none of that, if you went out and have conversations, you could actually really get to what the problems are with these policies that are being implemented. and i think our current safety net system 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, they cannot 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 the self civilized 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 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? yes, jo, now its impact 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 support. the minute you get a job and your income increases that support will decrease. thank about the incentives

of that. i 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. 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. it won't let you know. we're having a town hall discussion and cookouts laura, i'm just hanging out flyers for an event. we're having tomorrow at the port house. my name is almost a lucky and i'm an associate professor of practice in 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 would be great if people really understood what the basic income is. i think would 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. another one with 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? that doesn't sound too good to be true. yeah. m. as in love with faith, hope a go by 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. that would rather my bills. we paid entering mail my finger such as i say, i don't, i wouldn't be rich by any means. i don't one as an handed him,

i just want to be able to pay my bill for my kids. that's all i want to mail you last tuesday for has with child support 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. so that wasn't good enough that he is being said, it's a 180 days or until his family could come up with 700 up 7 her little already 3. $10.00 is a lot of money to do. so with him gone, what do you use? communicate for christmas, what he knew and no mean to link. no. i still like the harder i try for my kids to be normal. preferred or 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 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 who are doing well. mm hm. i will not take all their money will 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. oh, is your media a reflection of reality?

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