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Andrew Yang Podcast

Mayors for a Guaranteed Income: Michael Tubbs, Aja Brown, and Alex Morse

Andrew Yang Podcast

Andrew Yang & Audacy

Society & Culture

4.83.2K 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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