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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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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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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…
Michelle Lockhart
"Resilience, and grace, no matter what you're going through, keep your head up. Fight fair, no matter what you're dealing with- fight…
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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Mary Black-Wright
"There’s always room for growth… When people say, oh I remember the good old days, I don’t remember that. I remember, don’t…
Maria Soto
"The people like Ruby Duncan who are actively trying to expand [welfare], they're literally looking the beast in the mouth and being…
Lindsay Cassella
"Gabriella was 14 when her pregnant mother passed away, leaving her and her father to raise her newborn sister with their devastation…