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More stories about how #basicincome helps people. ❤️

There's so much buzz around Sam Altman's basic income pilot, we often forget there are real humans behind the numbers. Stories of people escaping abuse, taking a risk for better jobs, building businesses, parents getting more time w/ kids. Here are their stories: 🧵

floydmarinescu's tweet image. There's so much buzz around Sam Altman's basic income pilot, we often forget there are real humans behind the numbers.

Stories of people escaping abuse, taking a risk for better jobs, building businesses, parents getting more time w/ kids.

Here are their stories: 🧵


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Canadian poverty costs a concerning $80 billion each year. #GuaranteedLiveableBasicIncome can cut these costs, fuel economic growth, and enhance the health and well-being of our population. #S233 #NFFN #SenCA #cdnpoli #cdnmedia #IDEP2023 #SDG1


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Janell Dymus says Basic Income recognises people where they are in life, be it mountaintops, valleys or trenches. Basic Income recognises people's right to look after themselves. #UBI #BasicIncome #bien2022


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BIEN Congress 5: Conference dinner in Brisbane the night before the Congress (Sunday night) with the Local organize committee, plus me, Scott Santens, Jessie Golem, Hyosang Ahn, & a few other UBI supporters ...


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BIEN Congress 66: Participants in UBI experiments are telling their stories. Jessie Golem is giving a powerful emotional account of her experience in the Ontario project (the one that was cancelled 1/3 of the way through). "It was random. And now you're stuck with me."


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BIEN Congress 67: "This is more than utopia for me. This is life or death." -Jessie Golem


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“My rent would be covered no matter what I did and I was crying with relief” - Jessie Golem on the dramatic impact of the Ontario Basic Income Pilot #BasicIncome #UBI #BIEN2022


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BIEN Congress 69: My reactions to Jessie Golem's speech: "Amandla! Awethu!" "Chuchy ar la!"


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@jessiegolem shares her powerful story being a lottery winner in the 2017-2018 Ontario Basic Income Pilot. She was able to start and grow a business and pay rent. #UBI #BasicIncome #bien2022


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Canadian MP @LeahGazan introducing bill c233: a national guaranteed liveable basic income, open to 18+ y/o inclusive of non-citizens without work requirements. "We can't afford not to implement UBI, poverty is expensive". #bien2022 #UBI #BasicIncome


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