Sign the petition: Stand with Rep. Rashida Tlaib

Stand with Rep. Rashida Tlaib: Create a cash-based safety net Petition to Congress: "Cosponsor Rep. Rashida Tlaib's BOOST Act and vote yes to pass it." Add your name: Dear Katy, Progressive champion Rep. Rashida Tlaib has a bold and uncompromising anti-poverty plan that respects the ability of low-income people to make their own choices. Her BOOST Act would give $3,000 in cash annually to every low-income adult and $6,000 to low-income families.1 But the right wing is already on the attack, with conservative leaders and pundits declaring her plan "deeply immoral" and "disastrous."2,3 The radical right never misses an opportunity to criticize progressive women of color. We need to show just how many people stand alongside Rep. Tlaib. Stand with Rep. Rashida Tlaib: Create a cash-based safety net. Click here to sign the petition. Conservatives want people to live at the mercy of corporate bosses. It is why they insist on strict so-called work requirements that micromanage the lives of the poorest Americans. It is an ideology rooted in often-racist assumptions that people will only work if someone threatens them with poverty. In fact, studies in Alaska ‒ where every resident receives an unconditional cash transfer every year ‒ found no effect on work. More importantly, children, students, caretakers, the elderly and the disabled, who do not work in wage labor, make up about 90% of people in poverty.4 Rep. Tlaib's plan is bolder than similar plans from many 2020 candidates. Those proposals are essentially expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit ‒ a great idea, but one that leaves out the more than 2 million Americans with no income and does little for the 10 million with less than $5,000 in annual income. Tlaib's proposal, in contrast, universally helps all low-income Americans.5 This plan is a scaled-down version of a "universal basic income": a regular cash transfer sufficient to cover basic subsistence needs. It is an idea that is growing in popularity as more Americans realize that the existing safety net leaves people with little dignity and control over their lives, at the mercy of corporate bosses and at risk of losing jobs to automation. Just as she did on impeachment, Rep. Tlaib is showing what courageous progressive leadership looks like ‒ and once again, the far right is doing everything it can to demonize a progressive woman of color. Let's raise our voices and make it clear that Americans support bold progressive ideas and bold progressive leaders. Stand with Rep. Rashida Tlaib: Create a cash-based safety net. Click below to sign the petition: https://act.credoaction.com/sign/rashida-tlaib-ubi-cash?t=9&akid=33305%2E12967895%2EYUZ4kF Thank you for speaking out, Heidi Hess, Co-Director CREDO Action from Working Assets Add your name: References: Jeff Stein, "Rep. Rashida Tlaib introduces closest plan in Congress to universal basic income," The Washington Post, June 6, 2019. Scott Morefield, "Dan Crenshaw says Rashida Tlaib's 'deeply immoral' cash giveaway plan is a basic 'misunderstanding of economics,'" The Daily Caller, June 10, 2019. Justin Haskins, "Democrat Rashida Tlaib proposes disastrous cash giveaway -- guess who's going to pay for it?" Fox News, June 9, 2019. Stein, "Rep. Rashida Tlaib introduces closest plan in Congress to universal basic income." Ibid. Photo: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images Share on Facebook Post to your wall Tweet this Post to Twitter © 2019 CREDO. All rights reserved. This email was sent to katy63.kelso@blogger.com. To change your email or mailing address, please click here: https://act.credoaction.com/me/update/?t=21&akid=33305%2E12967895%2EYUZ4kF To unsubscribe, please visit our subscription management page at: http://act.credoaction.com/cms/unsubscribe/unsubscribe/?t=23&akid=33305%2E12967895%2EYUZ4kF