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America Dissected

Andrew Yang and the COVID Basic Income

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Listeners share what they’re doing with their $1200 checks and then Abdul dissects how a check can be a powerful anti-COVID19 public health tool and speaks with former Presidential candidate Andrew Yang about the government checks and universal basic income more broadly.

Transcript

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0:00.0

In the past four months, more Americans have died of COVID-19 than died in the entire Vietnam War.

0:15.0

The Dr. Anthony Fauci reports findings from an NIH-backed study and says,

0:19.0

quote, a drug can block this virus.

0:22.0

Meet supplies are thinning, and the President signs an executive order to keep

0:26.0

packing plants open despite numerous outbreaks that forced them to close in the first place.

0:31.0

This is America Dissected, and I'm your host, Dr. Abdul-Elseid.

0:40.0

$1,200 checks have been hitting mailboxes in banking accounts,

0:43.0

and we asked you to tell us what you're doing with your check.

0:46.0

Hello, Dr. Abdul-Elseid.

0:48.0

Hello, Mr. Yang. Dr. Elseid.

0:50.0

Hello, people of the America Dissected.

0:52.0

There were some folks who used their checks to say for the future and spruce up on some extras.

0:56.0

We used our stimulus checks part of it to go towards our car payment.

1:02.0

And I managed to get various things from from the grocery store, a new laptop.

1:07.0

I'm using the money to get takeout from local restaurants more often than I would normally.

1:11.0

The $500 mix has been I got for my daughter.

1:14.0

We put towards her $5,29 college savings plan.

1:18.0

I've given to so many organizations and individuals who are suffering,

1:23.0

which is something I couldn't really do before because our budget is always pretty tight.

1:29.0

There were others who had to use their stimulus checks to make ends meet.

1:33.0

I'm going to spend my $1,200 check on rent.

1:37.0

I got eaten up really quickly, paid off my bills, my utility bill, my rent.

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