Mayors for a Guaranteed Income: Michael Tubbs, Aja Brown, and Alex Morse
Andrew Yang Podcast
Andrew Yang & Audacy
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Three mayors join Andrew to discuss how UBI would transform their cities. Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs founded the group "Mayors for a Guaranteed Income" this June. Since then, prominent mayors from around the country have pledged their support, including Compton Mayor Aja Brown and Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse--who is now running for Congress in a tight race.
Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7a4mojoryq8
Alex Morse - https://twitter.com/AlexBMorse | https://alexmorseforcongress.com/
Aja Brown - https://twitter.com/AjaLBrown
Michael Tubbs - https://twitter.com/MichaelDTubbs | https://www.mayorsforagi.org | http://mtubbs.com/
Andrew Yang - https://twitter.com/AndrewYang | https://movehumanityforward.com
Zach Graumann - https://twitter.com/Zach_Graumann
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | in the middle of this pandemic, |
| 0:02.1 | while our federal government seems more concerned |
| 0:04.0 | with bailing out corporations and institutions |
| 0:07.0 | and businesses, we need to fight for a people's bailout. |
| 0:10.3 | And then the George Floyd protests. |
| 0:12.2 | I think it really had me go back to Dr. King |
| 0:14.9 | who was talking about the guarantee date |
| 0:16.6 | to come during a similar time as nation's history |
| 0:18.8 | when there was 253 riots across the nation |
| 0:22.3 | of people who were protesting and saying enough is enough. |
| 0:24.9 | The guarantee didn't come as really about dignity. |
| 0:27.5 | We can have better systems that really |
| 0:30.3 | lift the whole nation as a whole. |
| 0:33.1 | Well, Michael and I were on a panel. |
| 0:35.1 | You said to me after the panel, you said, |
| 0:37.2 | Andrew, you can say shit, I could never get away with saying. |
| 0:39.8 | And I really took that to heart, Michael. |
| 0:44.0 | One of the things that came through to me during the campaign |
| 0:47.1 | was that we each have a message. |
| 0:50.2 | And unfortunately, or fortunately, |
| 0:52.5 | like the message and the message |
| 0:53.7 | are really get tied up together today in America. |
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