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this, even though we will ben in the you are of the kremlin, the media machines, the state on the rushes to day and split the ortiz full neck. even our video agency, roughly all the band on youtube. the question, did you say even twist, which is the the is 2 things we love in this country, its cache and freedom. but 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 jack, i'll do a job that explored you shackled to a good interest, right? this apps, you drag shackled to medical bills for ailments so they could have their own student loans, their default. they know it's an impressive in this heartening state of affairs. that leaves people doing whatever they can just describe by because they don't have any other choice. and that's not freedom, but the universal bicycle 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 to 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 plate. financial catastrophe. basically, i just, i live in paycheck to project, not having any extra money for any thing at all. and you know, things happen. my name is tre crowder. i've 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 tails. lot people asked me what to think about like live matter. well put same place 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 to bribe 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 the typically 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 a non 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 that my son couldn't afford the like said in 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, 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 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, we deserve better. you be, i is actually not a new id and 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 and martin luther king junior was for you. we are one of answers and seems to me is a guaranteed annual income, a guaranteed minimum income of people and pro family is about 1969. richard nixon even propose that 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 fight with no friends for human dignity, that soul bite the lights a 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, should be an example for the world and the lights. and the lamps comes out to be extremely proud of that because as a whole concept of people owning your resources and the government having to take the money back from the people instead of the 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, they look 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 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 are now my hometown, smaller than yours. and i feel like that's an argument that typically when, because 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 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 worked. 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. and it does cost that, and if you heard of aust, costco 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 sense and as far as i'm aware, there's not anything major in that regard on the horizon. so it's a line. uh, my opinion is like a textbook example of the top place that would benefit a lot from a basic income and it also mistakes, but you'd like to people there would be all for it with it. i don't know that that is true. the there it is. saying that the crime, these, they ask us for gosh factories. yes, my gosh, she did. 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. i 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 $34.00, or $5.00, people stop spinning it, you know, you've got the cafe move on on that are running the video store and the car lot. and that by the time i graduated high school that i'm literally all going to say and not all, not only is that all gone but like, you know, all 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 and 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 common the i'm saying, i think there will be a lot of people that will say, well, i've no, i mean i don't want to hand that. yeah, i'm not looking for hand. well here's an a white bring bring the job bag. that's what you need to do. politicians, but like, i mean can 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 a pleasure. the problem. i would love to also see how they respond to that check. right, right. let's see what they did. right? presumably they buy stuff or, you know, finally get like the fan belt fixed on their car or whatever that i've been putting you on 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 see a radically, a big portion of it would get like pump straight back in to just to the general economy because they're going to spending all things that they need, that they haven't been buying in a long time because i the money to do the idea of giving unconditional cash might 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. the universal basically come when you're texting people and redistributing well without marriage, that he encourages leaves in workforce warren buffett 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 like, know, you might, this trust is providing a guaranteed income to low income african american women and their families. 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 child in a matter of months. 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. now, there will be on us from this point, forgives. so support my kids, tell me pay deals and have a lot to straight from month to month when my mom was in abusive relationships. my dad was very, very small. so when i got it and my relationship model issue was abusive and i was like, when never ever put my kids in jeopardy. oh. or in a relationship that i mean it's not working. so you have to break the cycle somewhere. and so that's what i did, i'm going to jason and i broke the side. there's a $1000.00 a month, no strings attached. if you use a have i would like them is. i don't know. i just won't go crazy. that one night when me on my page 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. the 1st day and they came to my mind square, my baby after you for my life and i knew, but at the moment i'm not stay here forever. i will get back in school pay of some dis agency to raise my credit score so that i can get the home that i want for me. and i love the the, 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 benefits when cash 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 usually the, the blue shirt. um yeah, pretty much getting up. verify. getting the middle one dressed and ready taken to the bus, stop a leased by 545. do you need them off the school or actually come back from the house always when she's getting ready, her boss will arrive no later than 655. actually having to rush back home, get the baby ready to take him to my mom's house is entering. busy turbo tuesday. well 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 want a job. this is just going to make is meet. i want to be able to, in saving, you know, take trips and do all of the things too. so in a 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 drive 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 having too many like rules or just tell you or you and you have to explain it on or how much you have to say. let me say to north, when i was on the tanf, the somebody's for gays, you have to put this, this is for gas and transportation. well, he see that i see you off your little tears. you can say food stamps and pay lie. be like, you 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 going to be 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, but they're not wife and they're just in effect that for example, if you're on 10 of your case worker to say ok, you have 2 weeks to get a job but no support is provided and getting that job. no child care is provided why you're looking for the job. if you do not have a job within 2 weeks and you are saying, since in most cases, that means that you will lose your smith for 90 days. that's what that means is that for 90 days you have no way of ensuring that shirts. household you are to have to take a moment list, this thinking 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 a need. sorry. oh, okay. and instead of recognizing that is the policies that are wrong were blaming the families, were saying, oh family. so one of the work r o family, someone or you know, have to take the drug test that we're requiring them to take because their own 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 safety net system is not working. and so i believe that a guaranteed income is an opportunity for us to rewrite the 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, they 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 a self civil 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 societies 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 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. the 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 jet. 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 then you were before when you were on government assistance alone. that's called a poverty trap. universe, with 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 the one to let you know we're having a townhome discussion and cook out tomorrow. i'm just 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 to like 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 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 the lineup. that sound good to you. that doesn't sound too good to be true, the face. how to what i go by. exactly what other. ok, here's one more fon