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This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
If we had an economic structure that was more fair to the lower classes, crime would go down. Like a basic income.
If we had an economic structure that was more fair to the lower classes, crime would go down. Like a basic income.
Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.
Getting big money out of politics.
Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages.
If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
Putting a solid foundation down takes all this from precarity to possibility.
Putting a solid foundation down takes all this from precarity to possibility.
Clothe the naked.👕
Help the needy.🤝
UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME NOW.💲
Clothe the naked.👕
Help the needy.🤝
UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME NOW.💲
If they're not going to read the room that we need to tax the rich at a large rate and abolish ICE, they need to be voted out.
#UBI #M4A
Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing…” #HousingFirst
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
We don't expect a plant to earn the right to live and grow, I don't see why that logic shouldn't also apply to humans.
We don't expect a plant to earn the right to live and grow, I don't see why that logic shouldn't also apply to humans.
If we gave everyone subsistence, no, we wouldn't have a lazy society. There's no limit to what people might do if their basic needs were met... we'd have less peril and more innovation.
If we gave everyone subsistence, no, we wouldn't have a lazy society. There's no limit to what people might do if their basic needs were met... we'd have less peril and more innovation.
Dr. Danielle Martin, Family Medicine Chair at UofT who has prescribed basic income.
Dr. Danielle Martin, Family Medicine Chair at UofT who has prescribed basic income.
Good way to reframe uni healthcare, housing assistance, and maybe some form of basic income
Good way to reframe uni healthcare, housing assistance, and maybe some form of basic income