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#HumanityFirst

[contrarient 🧢 @contrarient]

"Can we begin to right the inequities that have weighed down our country for generations? We have no choice but to try. We must try our hearts out, try until we burst, beyond the limits of our endurance."

https://t.co/m2zxbOjQxf

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

There are 18,000 police departments in the US. How is reform possible? One approach would be a new George Floyd Police Misconduct division of the DOJ with a budget of $6 billion a year. Hire thousands of federal agents to investigate police misconduct. Have Val Demings run it.

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

Poverty is unnecessary.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

The number of mothers with children under 12 saying that they can't afford enough food for their children was 7 TIMES LARGER in April than it was in 2018.

Americans are starting to go hungry.

[The Beat with Ari Melber @TheBeatWithAri]

WATCH: Senator @EdMarkey tells @AriMelber that Andrew Yang was right when he suggested paying U.S. citizens. In light of the coronavirus pandemic, Markey argues giving citizens money "on a predictable basis" is "the moral thing" to do and "best for our economy."

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

https://t.co/l9rPxgiFT1 36.5 million unemployed and that’s an underestimation. Dramatic action is needed including immediate cash relief.

[The Vancouver Sun @VancouverSun]

B.C. explores universal basic income for post-pandemic world https://t.co/jtZo9f0cAF

[foruee ☯ @foruee]

@ianbremmer on @YangSpeaks
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[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

.@AndrewYang is launching a universal basic income project in Hudson, New York.

Twenty residents will receive $500 a month for five years. The starting date will likely be this fall.

Yang said he hopes this type of project happens across the country.

https://t.co/YmeGjOlOC8

[Forever Yang Gang @need_yang]

Brother’s at-home college grad ceremony！Yang shirt on of course!!! #YangGang @AndrewYang @EvelynYang #YangGang #Yang2024

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

Anyone worried about inflation right now doesn’t understand what’s at stake - it’s literally the fate of millions and avoiding a new Great Depression. If anything we will be under tremendous deflationary pressure for quite some time - what would you spend more money on right now?

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

What I mean by LOCALISM.

Linked to subsidiarity: you leave to HIGHER collective structures things that cannot be done by the individual, under constraints of liberty. We need govt where we can't sue (systemic harm: viruses, GMOs, invasions).
Govt is the systemic risk mgr.

[Scott Santens @scottsantens]

@dcexaminer @DanCrenshawTX Are you calling Milton Friedman a free market socialist utopian, Dan? Are you familiar with Alaska? Is that a socialist utopian state with their universal annual cash dividend? Is Monopoly a game about socialism or capitalism?

Businesses need customers.

https://t.co/zCencM9e1M

[Zach Graumann @Zach_Graumann]

Never been much of a foreign policy fan but this episode is pretty 🔥

[contrarient 🧢 @contrarient]

@YangVets @zantorien19 In HS, I was not sure what I wanted to do with my life, so I chose to study math, it gives you the tools to study anything you want. If I could go back, I would also join a hacker space (hardware, robotics, 3d-printing) to master the tools to build things in real life.

[contrarient 🧢 @contrarient]

@YangVets @zantorien19 Impressive! If he is a self-learner, he can handle anything. High school and college is not about learning, but about credentials. Ask him what decisions he could make today to help his future self: What should I study, build, try today to have better, more options in the future?

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

35% of the lowest-paid workers have lost their jobs
9% of the highest-paid workers have lost their jobs

The damage has been so imbalanced that the average U.S. wage has "grown" 8% just by removing so many low-wage workers from the pool
https://t.co/mHvKZDYuoh

[contrarient 🧢 @contrarient]

@diviacaroline https://t.co/ZQ8Ik2Cr1V

[Miguel Hernán @_MiguelHernan]

BREAKING NEWS: Preliminary results of Spain's seroprevalence study #ENECOVID.

>60,000 participants

Antibodies for #SARSCoV2:
5% of Spanish population
11% in region with highest incidence (Madrid)

So far from herd immunity in country with 2nd largest number of cases after U.S.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

40% of US households with less than $40,000 income have lost a job.

- Fed Chairman Jerome Powell

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

Biggest winner I see from coronavirus is automation.

Which creates a problem.