“Many of them had incomes so low that they were housing insecure. A number of them were in and out of homelessness.”
“When you think of low-wage workers, you don’t think of school employees,” she said. “You think, maybe, of fast food workers...” 1/3 nytimes.com/2023/03/24/us/lo…
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“…But you don’t think of individuals who take care of special needs kids.”
The Mayor of Los Angeles has been in Congress for 11 years and it took the S.E.I.U. strike to make her realize the economic hardships endured by average working Americans.
Just knowing the truth in America today is a radicalizing experience. 2/3
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America needs a full on economic u-turn, from universal healthcare to tuition free college and tech school to free childcare and paid family and sick leave to a guaranteed livable wage.
Those are considered moderate positions in every other advanced democracy - and they should be in ours as well.
For the last 50 years, Americans have been conned into believing trickle down lies.
Now it’s time for some trickle up truth. 3/3
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People are paying too much *now.*…
1) People in other countries who pay more taxes get much much more in exchange for them, therefore spending much less of their own money paying for things such as childcare and healthcare out of their own pockets. Right now, for instance, one in four Americans carry medical debt. Medical debt does not exist where there is universal healthcare.
2) These kinds of changes do not involve more taxes for the middle class, but only for those who earn so much that they wouldn’t even feel it.
A righteous person doesn’t want to feel that their ability to create wealth is predicated on other people never getting a chance to.
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