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Chris Hughes, Facebook co-founder, and Natalie Foster, co-founder of peers.org, discuss the idea of universal basic income and how it will help individuals make ends meet.
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Chris Hughes, Facebook co-founder, and Natalie Foster, co-founder of peers.org, explain how universal basic income was used in the past and why as a result of stagnant wages it’s needed today.
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Chris Hughes and Natalie Foster explain how Universal Basic Income can combat poverty.
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Jennifer Ito and Marqueece Harris Dawson discuss Los Angeles's income inequality and how while some people benefit from economic booms, those at the bottom see their wages drop.
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Adam Steltzner, JPL Chief Engineer for the Mars 2020 Project, discusses what it would take to live on the Red Planet.
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Adam Steltzner, JPL Chief Engineer for the Mars 2020 Project, remembers the “seven minutes of terror” when the Curiosity Rover landed on the Martian surface in 2012.
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Adam Steltzner, JPL Chief Engineer for the Mars 2020 Project, explains the Mars 2020 Project and how NASA plans to collect and store samples from the Martian surface.
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John Ridley, Oscar Winning Filmmaker, discusses how entertainment can deliver empathy to audiences.
Universal basic income remains a cutting edge idea concept and certainly has its share of detractors, but the idea has also perked up the ears of some highly influential people.
John Ridley, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “12 Years a Slave” continues to tackle subjects that are relevant to today’s America. The unstoppable Ridley is now working on a comic book sequel, “The American Way: Those Above and Those Below.”
The South L.A. Transit Empowerment Zone, or Slate-Z, has been racking up victories in funding economic opportunity programs since receiving designation last year as a Promise Zone.
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Chris Hughes and Natalie Foster explain how Universal Basic Income was used in the past.
