“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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Capitalism isn’t a switch you turn off and on.
The happiest countries where people are thriving the most are hybrid economies. Scandinavia, etc..
It doesn’t legitimize the current power structure to run for office. You disrupt it by gaining levers of power within it.
An example, unfortunately, are all the extremist right wing authoritarians gaining power in statehouses around the country.
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