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Sukhi Samra grew up with a mother who worked up to 80 hours per week to support three children and a husband with a disability. None of her three jobs paid her well enough to make ends meet in Fresno, California, in the late 2000s. So she juggled work as a housecleaner with shifts at a Subway restaurant and a gas station convenience store, and still struggled financially.
Samra said receiving just $500 in additional income a month would have reduced her mother’s workload and stress load, she said. Instead, the food worker developed hypertension, arthritis, depression, and anxiety before dying suddenly in June after 25 years of low-wage labor.
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UBI is dead; guaranteed long-term income
Hudson, New York and Gary, Indiana, Compton, California
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Since the year SEED’s first-year results were released in March, Tubbsi has often been asked what he has learned. “I’m tempted to say nothing,” he told me in late March.
It means that the pilot didn’t say anything that was already obvious to him: from personal experience, he knew that there weren’t many stereotypes about poor people (especially poor blacks) that were “rooted in reality”.
Tubbs was born in Stockton to a teenage mother and a father who was a prisoner. He went to Stanford with a need-based scholarship, and returned home after graduating. He was soon elected to the City Council when he was just 26 years old before becoming mayor.
Automatic Stimulus Checks? White House, Senators Weighing Economic Triggers for Future Relief
On 5/7/21 at 1:18 PM EDT
In an effort to safeguard against any future recessions, senators and the White House are considering setting up automatic relief for the next time the economy takes another significant dip.
On Tuesday, the Economic Security Project briefed 50 staff members from the Senate Finance Committee on automatic stabilizers, which would tie the issuance of expanded unemployment payments and stimulus checks to the state of the economy. The organization also had conversations with President Joe Biden s administration and is hopeful the measure will be included in the final draft of either the American Families Plan or the American Jobs Plan, Biden s next big legislative push.