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Eshe Shukura
Eshe Shukura
"I loved guaranteed income. But I often was like, I don't want it to feel like dignified welfare, I think it is more radical to think about it as something that people are owed, that people you know, deserve. That it should have been happening for years."
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Jackie Toomer
Jackie Toomer
"I was self employed. But I lost my home to a predatory lender. So I lost my business. And I went down to zero."
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Miriam Aydoun
Miriam Aydoun
“It's never one woman in your path. It's never just one woman. I would say, if there is anybody, I would say it's like the whole feminine energy as a whole.”
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“I think the basic income is really helping. It does help because like I say, sometimes in the middle of the month…
Miriam Aydoun
“It's never one woman in your path. It's never just one woman. I would say, if there is anybody, I would say…
Venorica Tucker
Venorica shares how the pandemic created and exacerbated insecurity for food workers. “We don't have some people who were finally buying a…
Jackie Toomer
"I was self employed. But I lost my home to a predatory lender. So I lost my business. And I went down…
Eshe Shukura
"I loved guaranteed income. But I often was like, I don't want it to feel like dignified welfare, I think it is…
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Charlesetta Lee
"Being raised in the welfare system is generational. It's almost like a generational curse. Because it's a hamster wheel. You're trying to…
Eduardo Rossal
"When I was a yay-high in Guatemala, young and all, I would be up early in the morning heading to work with…
Lindsay Cassella
"Gabriella was 14 when her pregnant mother passed away, leaving her and her father to raise her newborn sister with their devastation…