Speaker 1: Just before the pandemic was about to take hold, the
Speaker 1: Magnolia Mother's Trust started dolling out cash. The program in Jackson, Mississippi,
Speaker 1: gives mothers living in subsidized housing a thousand dollars a
Speaker 1: month for twelve months, twelve thousand dollars, no strings attached.
Speaker 1: For the couple hundred women selected. The good news came
Speaker 1: by phone. So I said, oh, my goodness, I said,
Speaker 1: Issue place, tell me I was selected? Issue laughing. I
Speaker 1: was like, stop, you got this sneaker? You sure you
Speaker 1: could the right person. It made me feel goody. It
Speaker 1: was a good feeling that my spirit was uplifted. Well.
Speaker 1: I was grateful, appreciative cash. It might be the best
Speaker 1: and easiest way to help people in need, give them
Speaker 1: money and let them spend it however they want and
Speaker 1: for women liked wanted to Johnson, a substitute teacher with
Speaker 1: two kids, The call from the Magnolia Mother's Trust couldn't
Speaker 1: have come at a better time. When pandemic kid I
Speaker 1: was on a screen break and we weren't able to
Speaker 1: go back to work. So I was like wow. I
Speaker 1: was like, I knew I hate the preserves, but then
Speaker 1: we didn't know when we go back to work. So
Speaker 1: I was beginning to start worrying, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the same week I was at I got
Speaker 1: a call from mcnodi's most Trust with that great news.
Speaker 1: Before she says she was barely getting by. She made
Speaker 1: sixty five dollars a day and was constantly juggling between
Speaker 1: paying her car loans, her life insurance, her other bills.
Speaker 1: She had tried to take on a second job in
Speaker 1: the evenings, but couldn't keep up with the physical demands
Speaker 1: of it after teaching all day marches. Needed the extra money.
Speaker 1: I just need the extra mony. I was tryed of juggling.
Speaker 1: The pandemic could have stretched her even thinner. When schools
Speaker 1: went virtual, she was out of a job. But not
Speaker 1: only did she get a call in March, she'd be
Speaker 1: getting monthly cash payments from the Magnolia Mother's Trust. She
Speaker 1: eventually qualified for enhanced unemployment benefits to an extra seven
Speaker 1: four dollars a week. With all that money coming in,
Speaker 1: she had enough to pay her bills on time, to
Speaker 1: save to think about moving. Oh, I feel good because
Speaker 1: I was able to go ahead and pay everything right
Speaker 1: away on time. Just pay everything is it was due
Speaker 1: By the end of the year, Duannata had earned thirty
Speaker 1: thou dollars and had saved almost half of it. To
Speaker 1: be honest, the type of money that I was bringing
Speaker 1: in that is the type of income that I really
Speaker 1: will look to heir. During the pandemic, cash was a
Speaker 1: surprisingly common and popular antidote to the economic crisis in
Speaker 1: the US, and for people like Dannata, it not only
Speaker 1: helped them stay afloat, it gave them a kind of
Speaker 1: financial security and stability they never had before. It was
Speaker 1: the best case scenario, but can it be a permanent solution.
Speaker 1: Jobless claims coming in, I mean really jumping from the
Speaker 1: week before pretty brutal. Three point to a million records.
Speaker 1: Six point six million Americans filed for unemployment last week.
Speaker 1: Some of you may be asking, where's my money? I
Speaker 1: need that one engine. Working women were the worst invested
Speaker 1: by the pandemic. Well, now to the billionaire boom. According
Speaker 1: to Bloomberg, super yacht charters are up over three hundred
Speaker 1: and a billionaire was created every twenty six How was
Speaker 1: during this pandemic. No, I'm not waiting in line for
Speaker 1: COVID test with the public growth, it is time for
Speaker 1: a Wealth tax Scan America. Welcome back to the Paycheck.
Speaker 1: I'm Rebecca Greenfield. Last week we heard a worst case scenario,
Speaker 1: skyrocketing inequality spiraling out of control. That's what a lot
Speaker 1: of economists thought would happen around the world, and early
Speaker 1: in the pandemic it seemed like that was the path
Speaker 1: the US was headed down. For me, one of the
Speaker 1: defining images of spring where those viral photos of car
Speaker 1: lines sneaking around food banks two months into this pandemic.
Speaker 1: The strain on some families is that a fever pitch
Speaker 1: with no jobs, no income, no way to pay rent.
Speaker 1: Even putting food on the table is difficult, Like the
Speaker 1: lines for free food in New Orleans, Desperation is growing
Speaker 1: by the day. That scenario would have been a continuation
Speaker 1: of decades long trends in the US. Despite being one
Speaker 1: of the most equal countries in the world after World
Speaker 1: War Two, heading into the pandemic, wealth inequality here had
Speaker 1: reached levels not seen in almost a century. Since Night,
Speaker 1: the wealthiest one person of Americans have almost tripled their
Speaker 1: share of wealth. It was a concerning situation heading into
Speaker 1: the pandemic, and when the virus hit, things looked really bad.
Speaker 1: The economy shut down, millions of people couldn't work, and
Speaker 1: the stock market crashed. It felt a lot like the
Speaker 1: two thousand eight recession, or worse. What in the world
Speaker 1: is happening on Wall Street? Two year no yields six
Speaker 1: In the blink of an nazdac, everything and more has
Speaker 1: been completely wiped out. It was the worst day on
Speaker 1: Wall Street since the crash of But then something surprising happened.
Speaker 1: The government stepped in with a robust policy response, much
Speaker 1: of which was targeted at low and middle income Americans.
Speaker 1: There were multiple rounds of stimulus checks for people making
Speaker 1: seventy five thousand dollars or less. There was enhanced unemployment,
Speaker 1: an extra six hundred dollars per week for anyone out
Speaker 1: of work due to COVID. Small business owners were eligible
Speaker 1: for forgivable loans, and then there was the expanded child
Speaker 1: tax credit checks that parents received in the mail every
Speaker 1: month for six months. Ben Steveman, the Bloomberg Wealth reporter
Speaker 1: who I spoke to last week, told me that all
Speaker 1: those cash injections give some Americans an amount of wealth
Speaker 1: they've never had before. People were saving the money they're
Speaker 1: paying down debt, and that ended up boosting the net
Speaker 1: worths of a lot of families in the United States
Speaker 1: who really had never had significant amounts of wealth. You know,
Speaker 1: if you look at surveys going back years, a significant
Speaker 1: share of the population, more than a third, say they
Speaker 1: struggled to come up with four dollars in an emergency.
Speaker 1: I mean, there were a lot of people who were
Speaker 1: really cutting it close before the pandemic, and suddenly they
Speaker 1: found themselves feeling like they had some financial wherewithal and
Speaker 1: some resources to rely on in an emergency. That child
Speaker 1: tax credit alone was hugely responsible for lifting millions of
Speaker 1: children out of poverty. In other words, the COVID crisis
Speaker 1: disrupted growing wealth inequality in the US. Now, the question
Speaker 1: is can wealth gains for the bottom continue well. Much
Speaker 1: of the government funding was never meant to last beyond
Speaker 1: the pandemic, and dozens of US cities cash experiments are underway.
Speaker 1: They're not as widespread as the stimulus or child tax
Speaker 1: credit payments, but they could offer a roadmap for a
Speaker 1: more permanent wealth building tool. My colleague Susan Burfield looks
Speaker 1: at Jackson, Mississippi, where some two hundred low income black
Speaker 1: mothers received enough money during the pandemic to sometimes double
Speaker 1: their income. Here she is with the story. In the
Speaker 1: summer and fall of nineteen Tamika Calhoun was going through
Speaker 1: a tough time. Everything just started going downhill, Like everything
Speaker 1: if you could go wrong, you did. I was struggling
Speaker 1: to find a job. I would work here and there
Speaker 1: for different um jobs where I'm taking care of someone,
Speaker 1: but it didn't last long because I didn't have transportation.
Speaker 1: One day in early January, as she was on her
Speaker 1: way to a new job, her Nissan Morano cut out.
Speaker 1: It was six in the morning, dark and she was
Speaker 1: stuck in the middle of the interstate. The police called
Speaker 1: her a tow truck. If she paid two hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: the driver could get the car to her home, but
Speaker 1: Tamika was short by the time I came up with
Speaker 1: the money they told me I would need. It was
Speaker 1: fifty dollars a day, and I didn't have it to
Speaker 1: need it out, and because I didn't have reliable transportation,
Speaker 1: they let me go. Tamica lost her car and her job,
Speaker 1: but then her luck started to change. She found work
Speaker 1: she could do from home, answering calls for apple, making
Speaker 1: almost fourteen dollars an hour. It was good timing. She
Speaker 1: couldn't have known, but COVID was about to close in
Speaker 1: and right after that, Tamika found out that she'd be
Speaker 1: receiving a thousand dollars a month from the Magnolia Mother's Trust.
Speaker 1: It's the first program to simply give cash to low
Speaker 1: income Black mothers living in affordable housing. It was started
Speaker 1: in meant for the everyday shocks and stresses of trying
Speaker 1: to get by a not enough to give single mother
Speaker 1: some room to breathe, to plan, And on that March
Speaker 1: day of Tamika's first thought, it was about all the things,
Speaker 1: the basic things she wanted for her family. I was
Speaker 1: thinking about all the things that we needed for the house,
Speaker 1: for the kids. They were growing out of their clothes.
Speaker 1: I finally was able to get them covers for their
Speaker 1: beds because they had the same covers for a long time.
Speaker 1: Just things to clean up with them around the house,
Speaker 1: or hair products, personal care products. I was able to
Speaker 1: kind of back up on that stuff. They were excited
Speaker 1: because they were looking forward to trying out for different
Speaker 1: things at school that they usually wouldn't be able to
Speaker 1: try out for it because I wouldn't have the funds
Speaker 1: to pay for it, and the pandemic quickly changed some
Speaker 1: of her calculations about what her family would need, and
Speaker 1: the extra money proved crucial in the way. She couldn't
Speaker 1: have expected no new after school activities, no vacation. Instead,
Speaker 1: she had to set up her five kids to learn
Speaker 1: online at home, so I had to use the money
Speaker 1: is to buy them computers about them death for their
Speaker 1: rooms to make it more structured. They also got the
Speaker 1: new clues she had wanted for them. She got a car,
Speaker 1: which opened up all kinds of possibilities, and eventually they
Speaker 1: got to Gotlinburg, Tennessee for a night away and it
Speaker 1: felt good saving to go on a vacation and not
Speaker 1: just using a whole check to pay for a vacation
Speaker 1: like we had money in our saving as we were
Speaker 1: able to go and actually have fun. The idea behind
Speaker 1: the program to MAKA participated in may sound familiar. It's
Speaker 1: called a guaranteed income and it's about giving people cash.
Speaker 1: Unlike most safety net programs, there's no bureaucracy, no owners requirements.
Speaker 1: It's an idea that goes way back, but it was
Speaker 1: in when Andrew Yang based his presidential campaign on the
Speaker 1: idea that people really began talking about it again. The
Speaker 1: first time you heard it, you're like, ha ha, that's
Speaker 1: a gimmick that will never happen. But if you dig
Speaker 1: into it, you will find this is not an Andrew
Speaker 1: Yang idea, visit Thomas pain idea. This is a Martin
Speaker 1: Luther King idea. And soon this is going to be
Speaker 1: the idea of the American people that takes us all
Speaker 1: away into the White House. Then came the pandemic and
Speaker 1: the racial justice protests, and it seemed that giving people
Speaker 1: cash could be one way to right some economic wrongs. Now,
Speaker 1: cities around the country are experimenting with different programs. Some
Speaker 1: are for any resident who lives close to the poverty line. Others,
Speaker 1: like and Jackson, are specifically from mothers residents of color. Today,
Speaker 1: applications open for the much anticipated Breathe program. It is
Speaker 1: an l a county guaranteed income program for a thousand residents.
Speaker 1: More than one people in Providence so are the first
Speaker 1: to receive a monthly check four five dollars. A hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty households across San Diego County getting a check
Speaker 1: for five hundred dollars today. The Baltimore Young Family Success
Speaker 1: Fund will support two hundred young parents between eighteen and
Speaker 1: twenty four years old with unconditional cash payments. These experiments,
Speaker 1: i'll have two things in common. They provide cash without
Speaker 1: any restrictions, and they want to prove that the money
Speaker 1: won't be wasted. Data collected over decades and across the
Speaker 1: world already show that recipients spend the money on the
Speaker 1: things they need most. And since the US government gave
Speaker 1: out a lot of cash during the pandemic, we now
Speaker 1: also have all the data on how those payments helped
Speaker 1: keep people from sliding into poverty. But stereotypes persist and
Speaker 1: critics remain. There's not a lot of trust associated with
Speaker 1: giving money to to the working class. That's Steven Nuniez,
Speaker 1: a sociologist and economist who's been studying anti poverty programs
Speaker 1: for more than a decade and guaranteed income programs for
Speaker 1: the past three years. He works for the Jane Family
Speaker 1: Institute in New York. There's a sort of assumption that
Speaker 1: they're going to misuse the funds. Maybe they'll loaf around
Speaker 1: if you don't attach it to some kind of work requirement.
Speaker 1: Maybe they'll use it on gambling and drugs and alcohol
Speaker 1: if you don't sort of limited and turn it into
Speaker 1: a voucher like with food stamps. None of the literature
Speaker 1: that supports that. The literature basically shows you give people
Speaker 1: cash and they use it sorts of the ways that
Speaker 1: you might expect them to use it. To pay off debt,
Speaker 1: to make big purchases, to buy toys and food and
Speaker 1: clothing for their kids. For kids, especially, cash pays dividends
Speaker 1: later in life. You know, early intervention when children are
Speaker 1: are young to prevent them from ring up in poverty
Speaker 1: can actually read huge rewards in terms of their long
Speaker 1: term health, in terms of their long term labor market outcomes,
Speaker 1: criminal justice involvement and education and so forth. It's the
Speaker 1: quick and easy way to do it. It's very effective.
Speaker 1: It can be cost effective. Ayesha Yandoro, who leads the
Speaker 1: Magnolia Mother's Trust, came to similar conclusions through her work
Speaker 1: in Jackson. She grew up there, left to earn a
Speaker 1: doctorate and community psychology, and then returned after deciding academia
Speaker 1: wasn't for her after all. She helped founds bring board
Speaker 1: to opportunities to provide services that families and subsidize housing
Speaker 1: actually asked for, like homework help for their kids and
Speaker 1: home ownership classes for themselves. When we're talking about families
Speaker 1: that live in extreme poverty, especially in this country, we
Speaker 1: never asked them what it is that you want or
Speaker 1: what it is that you need. It really is a
Speaker 1: hierarchy based on us telling them what they need, what
Speaker 1: their needs are, and it's based on deservingness or ideas
Speaker 1: of deserving this. By though, she had become concerned that
Speaker 1: all those programs still weren't helping enough families out of poverty.
Speaker 1: So many of our families talk about homeownership as their
Speaker 1: main go for themselves. They talk about the picket this,
Speaker 1: and we weren't seeing that happen. Every story that we
Speaker 1: heard was something that could be address with money. No
Speaker 1: one was saying we need more programming. What we were
Speaker 1: hearing is, oh, well, I can't get to my job
Speaker 1: because my car isn't working and I have to pay
Speaker 1: someone gas money to get me to my job. Or
Speaker 1: what we heard was, you know, my daughter matriculated to
Speaker 1: the next level of the science there. I'm really excited
Speaker 1: for her. But now that's really stressful because I got
Speaker 1: to figure out the twenty five dollar application fee. As
Speaker 1: we were was listening to this and listening to families,
Speaker 1: so they can't really frustrated because I was like, this
Speaker 1: is stuff that can be fixed with money, and not
Speaker 1: a lot of money, like a relatively small amount of money.
Speaker 1: And so I begin research and I'm like, hey, how
Speaker 1: do you give people money? Are you? Sha us Tamika
Speaker 1: and a few other women about the idea of just
Speaker 1: receiving some cash. She was asking us, I guess because
Speaker 1: it would go to mothers like us, like what would
Speaker 1: we use it for? And you know, do we think
Speaker 1: there should be stipulations that come with it? And us
Speaker 1: being so used to think having stipulations, we were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it should be some stipulation. You know, you shouldn't just
Speaker 1: give it away. Our moms were very clear that they
Speaker 1: did not want to become dependent when it's money. They
Speaker 1: wanted it really to be a springboard. The first year,
Speaker 1: it was a lot of even though our mom's love
Speaker 1: and trust us, there was a lot of girl quick playing,
Speaker 1: y'all just not gonna give us money? One to women
Speaker 1: send me It's like, you should this really sounds like
Speaker 1: a scam us And I was like, you're right, this
Speaker 1: really does sound like a scam, and If anybody else
Speaker 1: ever calls you're saying they're going to do this, don't
Speaker 1: believe them. You're exactly right. Finding the money to fund
Speaker 1: the program, even two years into the pandemic, still isn't easy.
Speaker 1: Like almost all of the local guaranteed income experiments across
Speaker 1: the country, the Magnolia Mother's Trust depends on philanthropy, not
Speaker 1: public money. Less than one percent of philanthrophic dollars come
Speaker 1: to the South, and of that one percent, less than
Speaker 1: one percent goes to organizations that are run by black women.
Speaker 1: Are black people. We have successfully helped us. You're in
Speaker 1: a new movement which feels really, really good. And to
Speaker 1: know that we are doing all of that in the
Speaker 1: backyard of one of the least progressive states in this
Speaker 1: country is pretty dope. In the first year of the program,
Speaker 1: Aisha raised enough money to give twenty mothers a thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a month. I know that for the families that
Speaker 1: we work with, in a lot of instances, poverty has
Speaker 1: been systemic, and it's been generational poverty. And I know
Speaker 1: that we are disrupting that pattern and saying, Okay, we
Speaker 1: see you, trust you know your brilliant, we know you
Speaker 1: have agency we know that you should be allowed to dream,
Speaker 1: just like I'm allowed to dream. Since then, the Magnolia
Speaker 1: Mother's Trust has been able to include about a hundred
Speaker 1: women each year, and Aisha has seen just what she
Speaker 1: and lots of others expect to see. When people get
Speaker 1: extra cash during the pandemic, they could pay their rent,
Speaker 1: buy enough food for their families, make sure they had WiFi.
Speaker 1: They go about living their lives and they go about
Speaker 1: taking care of business. They get their car repaired, they
Speaker 1: pay off debt, they go back to school, they get
Speaker 1: better jobs because now they actually can't take off work
Speaker 1: because you know, if you're working an hourly job, you
Speaker 1: don't have PTO where you can take off work to
Speaker 1: go interview for a job. For Tamika, the extra cash
Speaker 1: sort of raised the stakes as it was coming to
Speaker 1: an end. She didn't want to go back to life
Speaker 1: on fourteen dollars an hour. I need to be able
Speaker 1: to make an income that either matches this or surpass it.
Speaker 1: And when I say this, I mean my job plus
Speaker 1: the Magnolia Mother's Trust money. So Tamika decided to look
Speaker 1: for another career and she found one. I worked for
Speaker 1: a company that helps their members become homeowners. So they
Speaker 1: apply with us to get their loan, and what we
Speaker 1: do is we give them financial counseling to get them
Speaker 1: ready for the home ownership process. It's fulfilling for me
Speaker 1: to know that I helped them achieve their goal, a
Speaker 1: goal that I want for myself, so I know how
Speaker 1: they feel. Jamika started her new job in November. Didn't
Speaker 1: she realized that with her higher salary she was likely
Speaker 1: to lose her housing subsidy. She could finally afford to move,
Speaker 1: even if she couldn't yet afford to buy. Her family
Speaker 1: left the apartment for a house with a backyard. I
Speaker 1: was able to move, and we didn't have to worry
Speaker 1: about using the whole paycheck to pay for the first
Speaker 1: month's orient or paying the deposit. Not only that, my
Speaker 1: kid's dad he ended up finding another job, and now
Speaker 1: that he's been at that job, his salary has increased.
Speaker 1: So all of that encouraged us to just want more.
Speaker 1: Some of the women who got cash from the Magnolia
Speaker 1: Mother's Dress might otherwise have fallen through the cracks. Sharika
Speaker 1: Washington had suffered a difficult pregnancy, couldn't work, didn't qualify
Speaker 1: for unemployment she was still recovering from an umbilical hernia
Speaker 1: in March when she learned she'd be getting a thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a month for the next year. First we was like,
Speaker 1: what's the kid? You know, it's gotta be a kitch somewhere.
Speaker 1: What is the kitch? When she found out there was
Speaker 1: no catch, Sharika told her kids that she could get
Speaker 1: them a treat, a nerf gun for her eight year
Speaker 1: old son and for her six year old daughter, her prince.
Speaker 1: There's petty. She's into the nail polish and the lip
Speaker 1: clouds and the lip baby bracelet and hers than Sharika
Speaker 1: got herself a car. It was seventheen hundred. I had
Speaker 1: a two thousand and seven port focused look Gray Little
Speaker 1: Doo Biggie And once I get the card, I was
Speaker 1: still able to manage the money to bill. You know,
Speaker 1: it was the big help. It was a big financial help.
Speaker 1: When I talked to Sharika and March, she was about
Speaker 1: to receive the last of the cash. She had just
Speaker 1: found a job working in a nursing home, making over
Speaker 1: ten dollars an hour. It wasn't as much as she
Speaker 1: had hoped to earn, but she was excited all the same.
Speaker 1: Can you believe it? Oh my goodness, I want to
Speaker 1: two interviews with my daughter, Oh my hip, But I
Speaker 1: thought one Monday at seven in the morning. What's twelve worth?
Speaker 1: Peace of mind? Some hope. New local programs like the
Speaker 1: Magnolia Mother's Trust are starting almost every month. And while
Speaker 1: the idea of cash grants may seem like something reserved
Speaker 1: for these small pilot projects funded only by philanthropists, there's
Speaker 1: actually a recent example of how to scale this up
Speaker 1: in the US. It's the Child Tech Credit. Families got
Speaker 1: up to three dollars a month for each child. The
Speaker 1: check just came in the mail. It was one of
Speaker 1: several government funded stimulus programs during the pandemic. I think
Speaker 1: the child tax Credit is a perfect example of what
Speaker 1: a targeting, guaranteeing and come program will look like at
Speaker 1: a federal level. We got a blueprint right there. And
Speaker 1: the only thing we have a blueprint, we have data,
Speaker 1: a plethora of data that showed in real time what
Speaker 1: both resources meant for families. But the momentum for more
Speaker 1: permanent national support has faded. The child tax Credit wasn't extended,
Speaker 1: stimulus checks won't becoming again. And for opponents of these
Speaker 1: kinds of programs, the data maybe besides the point, that's
Speaker 1: not really what the what the battles are about. Right again,
Speaker 1: They're about deserving nous and you know what kind of
Speaker 1: safety net we want and what kind of society we
Speaker 1: want to be, And that's a that's an ongoing battle.
Speaker 1: I was not naive to not really understanding how pervasive
Speaker 1: ideologies around deservedness really are, and that how we truly
Speaker 1: view poor people within this country, um is that they
Speaker 1: deserve to be poor because of behavioral choices, not recognizing
Speaker 1: that they are poor because of systemic choices, because of
Speaker 1: policy choices that are put in place, and because of
Speaker 1: policy choices that, if I'm being honest, the majority of
Speaker 1: us aloud to be put in place. And I also
Speaker 1: say this other part that's been hard, and this is
Speaker 1: I think it's the most damning part of poverty. But
Speaker 1: this is also I think a tactic of the system
Speaker 1: of how they work is that because the mainstream narrative
Speaker 1: is real about behavioral ships and behavioral changes that need
Speaker 1: took her so many of the women that we worked
Speaker 1: with the actually believe that. And they believe that, oh,
Speaker 1: if I work enough or if I save enough, or
Speaker 1: if I do more of this, then I will have
Speaker 1: that American dream. And that's just not the reality. You
Speaker 1: can't work any harder than you're already working, if you
Speaker 1: have three jobs. But they don't see that because the
Speaker 1: mainstream narrative is that they're the problem, and they buy
Speaker 1: you into that deserving No. That's something that also came
Speaker 1: up in my conversation with Ben when I asked him
Speaker 1: why the response to the pandemic was so different from
Speaker 1: previous economic crisis in the US. He said that for
Speaker 1: a brief moment, nobody blamed anyone for being out of
Speaker 1: work or needing help. They blamed the virus. That's not
Speaker 1: how people generally see poverty here. Tamika, for her part,
Speaker 1: thinks the policymakers are getting it wrong. I think there's
Speaker 1: a disconnect. I don't think that they see the struggle.
Speaker 1: I think the people who are making the rules are
Speaker 1: not on the ground with them, you know, with the
Speaker 1: people who are actually out here working and trying to
Speaker 1: make a living for people who can't work but want
Speaker 1: a better life, like they deserve to be in nice
Speaker 1: houses too, and not everybody's just looking for a handout.
Speaker 1: Some people actually want to live and live a better life,
Speaker 1: but they have limited resources. We're not asking for a handout,
Speaker 1: We're asking for help. Like just we're working. We're getting
Speaker 1: up every day doing what we're sponsible. We just want
Speaker 1: to be able to provide for our children next week.
Speaker 1: On The Paycheck, we had to a part of the
Speaker 1: world that had lefted millions out of poverty by educating
Speaker 1: young girls until a pandemic hit. Now those girls are
Speaker 1: trying to get back on track. For me, I see lights,
Speaker 1: I see like I'm going to that move that I wanted.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Paycheck. If you like our show,
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Speaker 1: was hosted by me Rebecca Greenfield and reported by Susan Burfield,
Speaker 1: Sarah Holder, and Ben Steve Berman. It was edited by
Speaker 1: Nicole Flata with help from Francesca Levy, Janet Paskin, Rocksheeta Soluja,
Speaker 1: and Meat. We also had editing help from Daniel Balby,
Speaker 1: Shelley Banjo, Kristin b Brown, Gilda to Carle, Elissa McDonald,
Speaker 1: and Kai Schultz. This episode was produced by Gilda de
Speaker 1: carl and sound engineered by Matt kim Our. Original music
Speaker 1: is by Leo Sidrin. The women you heard at the
Speaker 1: top of the show were to Mika Calhoun, Dwanna to Johnson,
Speaker 1: Elsie McCoy, and Sharika Washington. Special thanks to Magnus Hendrickson,
Speaker 1: Mckinninda Keeper, Margaret Sutherland, Stacy Wong, and Aisha Yellow. Francesca
Speaker 1: Levy is Bloomberg's head of Podcasts. See you next week.
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