Ep. 231 - New legislation from AOC to protect small businesses

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Mega businesses are using the coronavirus crisis to take public money and then demolish vulnerable small and medium sized businesses. New legislation that we should all support halts all mega-mergers during the crisis. Today I unpack why we should all care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We have a lot going on in the country right now and right under our noses
0:05.4	mega corporations and the super-rich are doing something dirty and underhanded
0:12.4	that's ultimately going to hurt all of us.
0:16.6	On today's episode, I want to tell you what this underhanded thing is and conclude by telling
0:22.2	you who is stepping up to stop it. This is Sean King and you
0:26.9	are listening to the breakdown.
0:29.2	The breakdown. Breakdown.
0:33.0	The Breakdown.
0:35.0	The Breakdown.
0:36.0	The Breakdown.
0:37.0	The Breakdown.
0:38.0	Millions, tens of millions of Americans are living in fear. Fear of contagion, fear of
0:49.6	needing health care that they can't access, fear of mounting debts, now fear of police brutality.
0:57.7	The public is already at risk, already taking a huge hit economically.
1:03.0	People can't pay their rent.
1:05.0	Small business owners can't pay their rent,
1:08.0	are struggling to pay their staff.
1:11.0	People are struggling. The bills are piling up, leaving both people and businesses more
1:18.5	vulnerable than they've ever been before. And in this chaos, in this fear where now over 35 million Americans have
1:29.8	filed for unemployment, behind the scenes, some of the most powerful interest in America
1:37.0	are making a killing. Everybody is responding differently to the crisis, but there should be one thing we can all agree. is
1:45.0	major corporation is major corporations
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