May
7
9:00pm
Money to the People! Meeting the Scale of COVID-19
By People's Action
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We need money to the people now! Rent is due, bills keep coming, and we need to put food on the table, but over 30 million of us are unemployed. One check isn't going to cut it. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib will tell us about her plan to give everyone a $2,000 check every month until this crisis is over and why it must be included in the next stimulus bill. Economist Stephanie Kelton will explain that we can do all the things we need to do -- provide free testing, get money to the people, and fund a massive jobs program to get us back to work -- the restraint isn't resources, it's political will.
Let's make a plan for what we need, let's make a plan for our future, with two of the leading thinkers and doers of this moment.
Featured Guests
US Representative Rashida Tlaib
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-13) has represented Detroit in Congress since 2019 and before that in the Michigan Statehouse. Tlaib is a well-known progressive warrior and, in her own words, “a mother working for justice for all.” She is the oldest of 14 children, born and raised in Detroit, the proud daughter of Palestinian immigrant parents.
Stephanie Kelton
Stephanie Kelton is a professor of economics and public policy at Stony Brook University. She is a former Chief Economist on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee (Democratic staff) and economic adviser to the Bernie Sanders campaign. Her highly-anticipated book, The Deficit Myth, will be published June 9, 2020.
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