1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wokay f Daily with 2 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from the Podstream 3 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 1: studios here in Times Square. Folks, I don't know if 4 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:25,799 Speaker 1: you were aware, but this week was Equal Pay for 5 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 1: Black Women Day and that was on August third. And 6 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 1: I want to say this. This is according to CNBC, 7 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: and I find this so completely troubling. First that we 8 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:39,919 Speaker 1: have to have an equal pay day in general for 9 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 1: all women, then we have to have a Black women's 10 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 1: equal pay day because as you stratifize, you go down 11 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:53,200 Speaker 1: the list of ethnicities by gender, you just lose money. Right, 12 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 1: So here's what CNBC News says this week, Tuesday, August third, 13 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: Black Women's Equal Pay Day marked the additional listen to this, 14 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: two hundred and fourteen days that black women must work 15 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 1: to catch up with white non Hispanic men what they 16 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 1: earned last year. In essence, this article says black women 17 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 1: have to work for five hundred and seventy nine days 18 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 1: to make what white men do in three hundred and 19 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: sixty five. The article goes on to say this, and 20 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,320 Speaker 1: I want you to pay attention to these numbers because again, 21 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 1: we have a Congress, right now that is controlled supposedly 22 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: by Democrats. We have a one vote margin with the 23 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: Vice President in the Senate. And here's the thing. We 24 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 1: have more women in Congress now than we have at 25 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 1: any other point in history, and yet we can't manage 26 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: to get a fucking equal Pay Act on the books. 27 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: And so how does it work, just in general for 28 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: the economy. If everyone who is working is not making 29 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: what they should be making, then you're not investing in 30 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: the economy and everyone loses. So I want you to 31 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 1: listen to this. On average, black women are currently paid 32 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 1: only sixty three cents for every dollar paid to a 33 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 1: non Hispanic white man. For full time working black women, 34 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 1: this amounts to a median wage gap listen of two thousand, 35 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: two thousand and nine dollars a month, twenty four thousand, 36 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:33,080 Speaker 1: one hundred and ten dollars a year, and nine hundred 37 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,959 Speaker 1: and sixty four thousand, four hundred dollars over a forty 38 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 1: year career. So you're looking at a potential loss over 39 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 1: forty years of working before you supposedly are able to 40 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: retire of close to a million fucking dollars in lost 41 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 1: wages because of pay and equity. And this is according 42 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: to the National Women's Law Center, and they say this. 43 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 1: I've looked at this in a lot of different ways, 44 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: says Jasmine Tucker, who is the director of research. I've 45 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: cut it by education, I've cut it by age, I've 46 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 1: cut it by job. It doesn't go away. It gets 47 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: a little bigger, it gets a little smaller, but the 48 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 1: wage gap is always there. There's a wage gap in 49 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 1: ninety four percent of occupations. Think about this because when 50 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: you think about the education level, the average, the median 51 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 1: education level of Black women, majority of black women are 52 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: college educated, many have post degrees, right graduate degrees. So 53 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: you're talking about a highly educated part of the black community. 54 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: Highly educated meaning on top of which you have an 55 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: enormous amount of student loan debt. So not only are 56 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 1: you trying to work twice as hard to get half 57 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: as much, but you're also incurring an insane amount of 58 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: debt in order to do that and still having to 59 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: work two hundred and fourteen days more than your white 60 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 1: male counterpart. How the fuck do we see these numbers? 61 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:17,040 Speaker 1: Know that it's true, Know that it doesn't matter if 62 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 1: you are working as a doctor, or if you're working 63 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: as a teacher, or if you're working as a nurse. 64 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 1: It does not matter. The pay gap is apparent in 65 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 1: ninety four percent of occupations, and we have the ability 66 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 1: to do that to change it. In other countries. Do 67 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: you know that it is illegal to pay people a 68 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:41,600 Speaker 1: different wage for the same amount of work. Why is 69 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: that such a pipe dream to think about here in America? 70 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 1: That if I am working side by side in the 71 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: same office, in the same fucking position as a white man, 72 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: that he is making over a dollar more than I am. 73 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: How is that? Okay? You know, the justification back in 74 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 1: the day was this, And we are so fucking far 75 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: removed from the little woman stays at home, heteronormative, patriarchal 76 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 1: model of what our economy and work looks like. We 77 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 1: are so far removed from the nineteen fifties in that aspect, right, 78 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: But we still set up this idea that somehow white 79 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 1: men deserve to get paid more money for doing less. 80 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 1: So here's the other thing that the article says. Black 81 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: women who work in areas that are critical to the 82 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen recovery, such as doctors, nurses, teachers, childcare workers, 83 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: wait staff, and cashiers, for example, make eleven to twenty 84 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:50,119 Speaker 1: seven percent less than white men, according to the data 85 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:55,280 Speaker 1: from the Economic Policy Institute, in higher paid professions, including 86 00:05:55,320 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: among doctors. This broke my heart. White male physicians and 87 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: surgeons make sixty three dollars and forty one cents an 88 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: hour on average. Black women in these positions make less 89 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 1: than forty six dollars and fifty nine cents an hour. 90 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 1: This is according to the Economic Policy Institute. The pay 91 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 1: gap can potentially result in millions of dollars lost in 92 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 1: wages in black female physicians lifetime. So imagine again, you're 93 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 1: going to school for seven, eight, however many years in 94 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: order to get that good paying job. You get in. 95 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: You think that you are doing it, you are doing 96 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 1: the most, and you come to find out that you 97 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: are making twenty to thirty dollars less than your colleague 98 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 1: who studied right beside you, going through the same program, 99 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:04,599 Speaker 1: getting the same degree. This is not about fairness, because 100 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 1: fairness comes from a place of morality and values. Right. 101 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 1: This is about equity, and I believe that we should 102 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: be in a position to be able to sue employers. Right. 103 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: We got part way there with the Lily Ledbetter Act 104 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: that was signed during the Obama years, but we did 105 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: not get all the way there, and it's a conversation, honestly, 106 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 1: that does not come up enough. Over fifty percent of 107 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 1: the fucking population is women, over fifty percent. So you're 108 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: talking about folks that if you are a single parent 109 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 1: and you are a woman, that you are barely able 110 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 1: to make ends meet, you should not be in a 111 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 1: household where your husband, if you are straight again, your 112 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: husband is making more money than you and you're in 113 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: the same position. And this goes thinking about right, queer people, 114 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: Black queer women who are coupled are more likely to 115 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: be living at the poverty line than any other group. 116 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: That is insane to me, but that number is always 117 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 1: stuck out in my head from when I was doing 118 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 1: the research as a senior advisor at the Center for 119 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: American Progress many years ago, because when you're looking at 120 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: the way discriminatory policies work is that there is a 121 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 1: huge economic component here because in order for white men 122 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 1: to have everything that they have, the path needs to 123 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 1: be cleared for them, which means that whatever clutter, debris 124 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: and obstacles are moved out of their way are placed 125 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: in other people's way. And we just shrug this off 126 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 1: in America, and we say, continue to lie to people 127 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: and tell them, get an education, pull yourself up by 128 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 1: your bootstraps, do the most. And you have a group 129 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:57,079 Speaker 1: of people, black women, who do all of those fucking things, 130 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: check every single goddamn box, and still come up in 131 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 1: their lifetime a million dollars less. So when we were 132 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: referred to and said to be the workhorse of this country, 133 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 1: this is what the fuck I'm talking about, because from 134 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 1: slavery until now, black women have never gotten their just 135 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,840 Speaker 1: due ever. Right, we don't even get acknowledged for the 136 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: creative content that is put in being put out. So 137 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: if you have kids right now who are telling you 138 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 1: about boycotts that were happening on TikTok and other things, 139 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: it's because black creators are like, fuck, y'all. You come 140 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 1: in here, you steal our moves, you steal our intelligence, 141 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:41,479 Speaker 1: you steal our creativity, you dress it up in whiteface, 142 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 1: and then you push it out there, and all of 143 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 1: a sudden, you're getting all of these ten twenty thirty 144 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: thousand millions of endorsements, and meanwhile, the black creatives get nothing. 145 00:09:54,720 --> 00:10:00,200 Speaker 1: It happens in every single space, in every single industry, 146 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:04,199 Speaker 1: and it is sickening, and it should be illegal. You 147 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 1: should get the same full dollar for work that your 148 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 1: male counterparts get. So the article goes on to state 149 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:20,719 Speaker 1: this and again just really incredibly troubling to me. So 150 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 1: it goes on to state this very clear fact, student 151 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: loan debt, as I mentioned, caregiving duties, particularly for single 152 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 1: black women, are among the factors that can exacerbate the 153 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 1: overall gender and racial wealth gap. Yet some companies are 154 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 1: making strides, they say, to provide benefits that could help 155 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 1: narrow the divide by providing student loan repayment assistance and 156 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 1: subsidized childcare. So again, when I hear the likes of 157 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi utter things like canceling student loan debt isn't 158 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:03,080 Speaker 1: a good eye idea. This is who she's saying, it's 159 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:06,839 Speaker 1: not a good idea too. There are schools right now, 160 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:10,320 Speaker 1: some that we have talked about historically black colleges, that 161 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:17,599 Speaker 1: are canceling student loan debt because they want their graduates 162 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 1: to be able to dream, to achieve. What would you do, 163 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 1: where would you go work, what would you invent, what 164 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:28,080 Speaker 1: would you innovate on? What business would you create if 165 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:31,959 Speaker 1: you weren't saddled with six figures of student loan debt. 166 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 1: It stops innovation, it stops dreaming, and it forces us 167 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: to continue to be cogs in a machine that just 168 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 1: grind us out. So it is a different form, dare 169 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 1: I say, of indentured servitude that happens when you become 170 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:55,679 Speaker 1: a college graduate. And so when Democrats, on one hand 171 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 1: want a campaign and tell young people, oh, we have 172 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,840 Speaker 1: your back, or anyone for that matter that wants to 173 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: go back get certificates and degree so that they can 174 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 1: be more competitive, you're trying to be more competitive so 175 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: that you can make more money. And we're telling black 176 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 1: women that essentially you're a motherfucking hamster on a wheel 177 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: right now, because you can keep running, and you can 178 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 1: keep running, but you ain't ever really going to get anywhere. 179 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:27,079 Speaker 1: And that's a horrible place to be in, a horrible 180 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: one to be in, particularly when we have the ability 181 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: to stop it, when we have the ability to create 182 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: policies that make it a federal offense for you to 183 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 1: pay people a different amount of money for the same 184 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 1: goddamn jobs. I'm not talking about bonuses, folks, I'm talking 185 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: about the fact that you're sitting as a cashier right, 186 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 1: and Johnny next to you is making twenty dollars an 187 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 1: hour and you're making twelve. But you guys are scanning 188 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:00,440 Speaker 1: the same fucking groceries. That's what is happening. That's what's 189 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:04,199 Speaker 1: been happening, and we have justified it by saying, oh, 190 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 1: you know, the good old boys club men need to 191 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 1: make more because they got to take care of the 192 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: little woman at home. That is not the society that 193 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: we live in, and it has not been for quite 194 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:16,680 Speaker 1: some time. But our policies have not caught up to 195 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:21,239 Speaker 1: where we are currently, and that to me is incredibly frustrating. 196 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 1: So they say that there are some fixes that employees 197 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 1: can make, but again I'm looking in this article where 198 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:32,839 Speaker 1: there isn't any for the fixes that Congress can make. Right, So, 199 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 1: once again we are passing the buck to private employers 200 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 1: to do the right thing. They're not going to do 201 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:43,440 Speaker 1: the right thing without fucking incentives. We know that no 202 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 1: one does. So here is what they offer. Employers can 203 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 1: make tax free contributions of up to five thousand, two 204 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars a year to their employees student 205 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:58,559 Speaker 1: debt through twenty twenty five. That can help many workers, 206 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:01,320 Speaker 1: including black women who are among those hardest hit with 207 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: student loan debt. This is another interesting point. While mothers 208 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:10,679 Speaker 1: in general who work full time earn seventy five cents 209 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:16,320 Speaker 1: per every dollar paid to fathers, black working moms are 210 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:21,840 Speaker 1: paid just fifty two cents on the dollar. However, a 211 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: recent NWLC report found that in high if high quality, 212 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 1: affordable childcare were universally available. And again, this is the 213 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:37,239 Speaker 1: type of infrastructure that we're talking about in the America 214 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 1: Cares Plan. We are talking about ways in which we 215 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: learned through COVID nineteen how unaffordable childcare is for most 216 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: American households. And so if we were like we are 217 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 1: doing right now with the child with the earned child 218 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: tax and all of these credits that folks are able 219 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 1: to get per child, but understand that this is running 220 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 1: out right, all of these offers, let's say, from the 221 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 1: federal government, have expiration dates, and we see how they 222 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 1: function with expiration dates. Given what happened with the moratorium 223 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 1: on evictions. People were evicted at five o'clock in the 224 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 1: evening that day because guess what, the extension didn't take 225 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 1: place until five thirty. So we know that everything that 226 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 1: is afforded two families two individuals has an expiration date, 227 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 1: of course, if you're not a shareholder or a CEO. 228 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:43,280 Speaker 1: But there are ways that the federal government can provide 229 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 1: a basic fucking income so people are able to close 230 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 1: this gap. It should not just be left to private 231 00:15:54,680 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 1: industry to do the right thing. That is it for 232 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 1: Today's Woke, A f daily podcast. To hear more from me, 233 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 1: including five full hour long shows every single week, exclusive 234 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 1: guest interviews, and more. Support me on Patreon at patreon 235 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 1: dot com. 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