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Eugene

(61,939 posts) Fri Jun 7, 2019, 01:26 AM Jun 2019

Rep. Rashida Tlaib introduces closest plan in Congress to universal basic income

Source: Rep. Rashida Tlaib introduces closest plan in Congress to universal basic income

By Jeff Stein June 6 at 12:15 PM

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has released a plan to spend trillions of federal dollars on direct cash subsidies to working class and poor Americans, including the unemployed and those with no earnings.

Tlaib’s bill would give direct cash help to those at the bottom of the income distribution — annually offering $3,000 to individuals and $6,000 to families — in an attempt to reduce poverty in the United States and bolster the wages of the poor.

The Michigan lawmaker’s proposal expands on a bill from Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), which would also direct trillions in tax credits to low-income Americans but offers no or smaller benefits for the poorest people in the United States.

By contrast, Tlaib’s plan offers the full $3,000 or $6,000 credit to those with no income — a significant break from orthodoxy among more centrist Democrats, who have traditionally argued giving federal cash to the unemployed will discourage them from finding jobs.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/06/06/rep-rashida-tlaib-introduces-closest-plan-congress-universal-basic-income/

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib introduces closest plan in Congress to universal basic income (Original Post) Eugene Jun 2019 OP

Well, it is nice to see that someone is thinking about the poor instead of the middle class finally. Doreen Jun 2019 #1

The middle class have become the poor. murielm99 Jun 2019 #2

Right. Turin_C3PO Jun 2019 #3

I have always felt Doreen Jun 2019 #4

Doreen

(11,686 posts)

1. Well, it is nice to see that someone is thinking about the poor instead of the middle class finally.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Jun 7, 2019, 02:00 AM

Jun 2019

The working poor and the poor seem to be forgotten. It seems like everybody is always talking about how awful things are getting for the middle class. The middle class is starting to feel what the poor have felt for a long time now.

murielm99

(30,755 posts)

2. The middle class have become the poor.

Reply to Doreen (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 7, 2019, 07:57 AM

Jun 2019

Turin_C3PO

(14,033 posts)

3. Right.

Reply to Doreen (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 7, 2019, 09:33 AM

Jun 2019

It seems like the middle class gets all the attention. I know it’s not fashionable to talk about the poor since they sometimes don’t vote but it’s a discussion that needs to be had.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)

4. I have always felt

Reply to Turin_C3PO (Reply #3)

Fri Jun 7, 2019, 01:02 PM

Jun 2019

that if one class protects the class lower than it it would have seen what was happening and be aware it could happen to them. Something like: "I did not protect the poor because I was not poor and now that I am poor there is no one to protect me" or something like that. I am horrible to say but they got their upcomings. It is amazing that the poor stands up for each other more than those with more to help. In a lot of ways the reason the poor do not vote is because they do not have a way to without losing money because voting will force them to leave work ( if they live in a state where by mail voting is not allowed ) and they are one of the groups gerrymandering is done for.

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