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[pulsing drums]
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[dramatic music playing]
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[Kurt Andersen] If you look
at the United States today,
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we still are one people.
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We still have a heck
of a lot in common.
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We still actually
like one another when we meet one another.
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But what I worry about
in America
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is this total divide
or bifurcation.
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And I see
two different Americas.
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These giant steeples of wealth,
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and then just mass homelessness
and mass poverty.
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It's as if the middle
of our economy
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just got eviscerated.
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We're just trying
to not lose our home.
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And these people,
they use the law as a weapon.
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I mean, our middle class is,
I don't wanna say it's gone,
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but it erodes every single day.
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[singing "Happy Birthday"]
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The lockdown of the pandemic
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is both the cause
of certain problems,
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and the revealer
of a lot of other problems.
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[Chris Smalls on megaphone]
Richest man in the world
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failed to protect
his own workers.
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We're in a fucked up time
in this country.
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[Christina]
Look at everyone out here in these states and these towns,
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and hundreds suffering.
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And the system
is just so broken.
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What are you doing for us?
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[electronic music playing]
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Elon! Elon!
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[Nick Hanauer] People have to
begin to understand,
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they have been
bullied and conned.
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How can it be true
that raising wages kills jobs?
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A job killer.
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...that would cost
as many as a million jobs.
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3.7 million lost jobs.
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If nobody has any money,
who will buy the stuff?
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[crowd chanting]
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Whether they're
from the Democrats or the Republicans,
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everyone's made a dime
on workers' backs
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[Stacy Mitchell] Fewer and fewer
people have a shot at realizing the American dream.
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It's a rigged system.
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[man]
Everything hinges off of people
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being able to support
themselves and their families.
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If we lose that,
we lose our identity and we lose our country.
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I pulled myself up by the
bootstraps so many damn times that I ripped them off.
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At some point,
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there's got to be
a breaking point.
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[man] This is the moment
that everybody needs to pay attention.
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[Janet Gornick]
As we look back at American history,
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we do see explosions
of growth of social policy
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following times of hardship.
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There is absolutely no reason
that we can't create such a moment again.
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And now is the time.
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[Chris Smalls] I need all y'all.
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Are you going to get in the
streets and do something
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or are you going
to sit back and do nothing?
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[speaker's words echoing]
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[dramatic music playing]
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[Chris Smalls] What do y'all
wanna eat for dinner?
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Get some pizza, da-da-da.
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Every time we come here,
we eat the same thing.
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Y'all want pizza, pizza, pizza.
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I said I don't know.
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- Chicken nuggets?
- No, pizza.
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That's the second thing
y'all always want.
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Chicken nuggets or pizza.
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- No you're not.
- You remember the handshake?
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No.
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Back up.
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You know, I love my kids
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more than anything,
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There you go.
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For me, I always want to be
a strong role model for them.
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Somebody that's always like,
you know, Daddy's going to take care of things.
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They may not understand
completely what's going on,
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but they understand that,
you know, their dad got fired
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for speaking out against Amazon.
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- [boy] Daddy?
- Yes.
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[boy] Wanna take a walk?
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[Chris] When I grew up,
I didn't have the luxury
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of having both parents,
you know, a single parent home.
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My mother, a strong black woman.
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Walk on this side.
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I really had to learn and earn
the things that I have in life.
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Come on, man.
You gotta look presentable.
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[Chris] Mmm. Hmm, hmm.
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- Daddy!
- [Chris laughs]
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Seriously, you have to eat off
your golden teeth.
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Everything that happened to me
is for them.
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I want them to be able
to grow up in a society
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where they don't have
to struggle as hard as we do.
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That's what we need
to fight for.
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Christian Smalls helped
to organize Monday's walkout
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by workers at Amazon's
fulfillment center on Staten Island,
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protesting the company's response
to the coronavirus crisis.
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We've got 10 cases
in the building.
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They didn't let my people know.
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My people are still
in there working.
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We are joined now
by Chris Smalls.
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- Christian Smalls.
- [Lesley Stahl] Chris Smalls,
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an assistant manager,
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was the first to organize
a walkout in the United States.
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Tell us what happened to you
after the protest.
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I was terminated
two hours later.
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Leaked notes showed
the company's leadership discussing plans
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to make Smalls
"the face of the entire union organizing movement,"
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since he is
"not smart or articulate."
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Which... holy shit!
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A union agitator.
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If they're not going to take
care of their employees, somebody has to.
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Oh, look who's here!
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Christian's here!
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[Chris] Hey!
What's up my brother?
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Every time we do these events,
we gain more support,
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and a lot of people are joining
us, so it's picking up momentum for sure.
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We stand in solidarity
with the workers in Alabama right now
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that has
a union vote on the table.
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We know that this is going
to be history for all of us
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if they do, or are successful
in unionizing the building.
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What the hell?
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I never seen that before.
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[laughs]
It seems like he paid the whole precinct off today.
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All we're doing
is advocating for wealth tax
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on all the billionaires,
starting with the richest man in the world.
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[people chattering]
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We're talking about corporations
that have enriched themselves on the backs of working people.
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We've got to get out
of the mentality of scarcity
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and this idea that there is not
enough money to go around.
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We are one
of the wealthiest countries in the world.
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And at the same time
the wealthy elite
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are walking away without
paying any sort of taxes at all,
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while the rest of us
bear the burden
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of making sure that we have
a government that functions.
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They may try to blame
the pandemic for their failures,
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but they're really just exposing
the cracks in our system.
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I would say they should
check their history.
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Maybe read a book.
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Because the labor movement
was born in times just like these.
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In our day,
certain economic truths
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have become accepted
as self-evident.
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A second Bill of Rights,
under which a new basis of security and prosperity
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can be established for all,
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regardless
of state or race or creed.
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The right to a useful
and remunerative job,
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the right to earn enough,
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the right of every family
to a decent home,
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the right to adequate protection
from the economic fears of old age,
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sickness, and unemployment.
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All of these rights
spell security.
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Every economy, and certainly
an economic system
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as complicated
and large as this one,
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is designed.
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It's a matter of a million
choices, both by individuals
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and by communities
and by national governments
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of how it's going to work
and how the economic pie that's baked every day
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is divided.
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The last time in our history
income inequality was this high,
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big corporations
were a new thing,
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and shareholders and their
wealthy friends rigged the system to their benefit.
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So workers got together
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and fought back against what was
essentially a ruling class.
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They formed unions.
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The power of unions
allows workers to come together
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and negotiate higher wages,
better health care,
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sick days, overtime,
pensions and protections,
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so that abusive companies
can't fire people for any and no reason at all.
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And that's how we started
to change the growing
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income inequality
in this country,
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by giving workers
something to fight for,
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someone to stand with,
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and a reason
to stay in this fight.
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We also created laws
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to control the power
of big business.
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Government,
combined with union power,
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created a web
of countervailing forces
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that was in relative balance.
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[Kurt Andersen]
Our economic system, which used to work
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for everyone in the sense
that rich people got richer,
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but middle class people
and poor people were also rising at the same rate.
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Those lines for 40 years,
just, they were parallel.
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And then suddenly, in 1980,
economic growth continued,
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productivity continued,
but the median income
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and the wealth of 60, 70,
80% of America stopped.
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[dramatic music playing]
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[Christina] Go ahead,
go get apples and bananas.
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Go sit on your lion chair.
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[water running]
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[children chattering]
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[Christina] Guys, you want rice?
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[boy] Yes, Mom.
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- [Sean] Yes.
- [boy] No!
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- [girl] Mom, mom!
- [Christina] Yes baby, yes baby.
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- [girl] Two?
- [Christina] Two.
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- [Sean] Two.
- [Christina] Are you turning the grill on?
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[Sean]
I don't know how to turn it on.
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Is the propane on already or...
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[Christina] It's on already.
You just got to turn it.
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You've gotta push it in
and turn it.
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You've got to keep clicking it
until you see the flames
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- Oh.
- go on.
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[Christina] We don't usually eat
a lot of steak because it's pricey.
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[chuckles]
We usually eat a lot of chicken.
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[boy] Yeah.
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But in order for the kids
not to really lose their mind,
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I try to get at least
a piece a week
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so they can have
a little something different.
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I had a bit of a fight,
getting help with food stamps when I lost my job.
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Her exact words
on the other end were,
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"Well, you drive a truck,
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so you can go find
something else to deliver."
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And it was when I told her,
"If you feel that way, I want to come to your office.
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I will drop off my children,
and I will take your job
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and you can come
and find something for my job."
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And it was after I told her
that that she said, "OK, I'll send you an application."
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And the kids heard
that conversation, too,
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so that was exciting to try
to explain that to them.
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You go from having
everything that you need,
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your kids have a roof
over their head.
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Everything's going
to be okay to...
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You don't know where your next
meal is going to come from.
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And this is like an everyday
thing for a lot of people.
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- Mom!
- [Christina] Yes baby.
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- Cook!
- [Christina] You want to cook?
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[food sizzling]
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- [Christina] Don't touch, okay?
- Hot!
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- [Christina]
It's hot. Very good. - [girl giggles]
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[Christina]
Okay, so we don't touch.
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The vast majority of families
that are poor work.
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And this kind of, you know,
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Reagan invention
and Newt Gingrich invention
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of the "welfare queen",
and that these people are ripping off the system,
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that's just, that's wrong.
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That's, you know,
it's just incorrect.
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It's not accurate.
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We need to just have a much more
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honest and open conversation
about what is the reality,
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what do we actually know?
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One out of four babies are born
at the poverty line or below.
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Right now, one out of four
babies in the United States are born below the poverty line.
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That's the reality.
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- [girl] Hi!
- [Jenny DePaul] Hi!
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[Christina] Where are you going?
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So really, employment and
housing are the two things...
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That's the two things
that I just want to figure out.
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Everything else, I can do it.
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on the weekends
and get it planned.
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But those are the main things.
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What are we looking at
as far as bills go?
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I don't want you to,
or even if you have an idea,
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It doesn't, you don't have
to go through every bill.
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No, but I can write it down
and add it up
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- because I'm not good
with math in my head. - Okay.
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- [girl babbles]
- [Sean] Shh, quiet.
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That's a little break about
right now, just with this, it's about $5,000.
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OK, so we're going
to try to, you know, get some donations coming in.
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So we need
we need to raise money.
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I feel like it's a lot easier
to become homeless than it is to get out of it.
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Okay. So, it's possible that
what I don't have in the store is because it's gonna fall out.
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One of the main problems is
people think they need to solve someone's whole problem.
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But I don't believe that
we need to know all the answers.
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We'll just share
like what we have.
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But the resources are really
scarce so people aren't able to get what they need.
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[gentle music playing]
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Where's Snoopy?
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Snoopy's helping me. I got it.
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- You want these shoes?
- [man translates]
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If you're just depending
on the system that's in place,
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there's just
a huge lack overall.
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For now, I think we should
all be doing our part.
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But there needs to be changes.
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One of the most
important elements of social policy in the US today
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is that the system of support
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for people and for families
is developed into two tiers.
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Social Security and Medicare,
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on the one hand,
these quite favored programs,
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and then all of the anti-poverty
programs on the other hand.
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And that lower tier
is very weak.
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- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
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A lot of nonprofits do help,
but that's not a solution.
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This concept of deserving
and undeserving, that's very deep in the United States.
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And it's important to note
that it's a socially constructed concept
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and a population can go
from deserving to undeserving.
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And that's what happened in this
country with single mothers,
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Back in the early day, when most
single mothers were widows,
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and when women's employment
was not the norm,
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they were treated
with great sympathy
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and that the cash benefits
that were given to them,
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it was viewed as replacing
the absent breadwinner.
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And they were viewed as worthy.
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In the 20 years after
the Social Security Act passed,
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single mothers
were slowly converted from deserving to undeserving,
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as they were more likely
to be never married,
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less likely to be widowed
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as women's employment
became more the norm.
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And they became
a very disfavored and stigmatized group.
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And it's partly
for that reason that we have
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among the highest poverty rates
among single-mother families
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and among children
of any country in the affluent world.
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[gentle music playing]
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[reporter]
Here at Riviera Apartments along Mercy Drive,
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tenants, mostly women
and their children, describe deplorable conditions.
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[tenant]
I have roaches, palmetto bugs.
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I don't have nowhere else to go.
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My apartment, it floods.
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[tenant]
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I told them I said, "Listen,
y'all not fixing nothing in my apartment.
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Why am I paying y'all
for y'all not to fix nothing?
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[male tenant]
...their mama or their kids or their daddy was here,
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they wouldn't be trying to board
their motherfucking apartment up.
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He's sitting there waiting
for the camera people to leave so he can come
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board these people's shit up
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because he don't want to do it
while the camera people are here.
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You don't want to see
these kids getting put out in the fucking streets.
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[man] You put it official.
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Hiya Judy.
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It's easier said than done,
just getting up and moving.
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I mean, I looked at a house
and they're asking for like
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$2200 up front
before you can even move in.
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It's hard to just say, "OK, I'm
going to get up and move and that's the end of story."
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I wish it were that easy.
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[child squealing]
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[Stephanie Porta]
Specifically around housing,
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we're at a crisis level
in this state
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and it's only gotten worse.
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We have the fewest tenant
protections in the country,
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and what the market is doing
is crushing communities and families.
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- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
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[child babbling]
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- Do you have any questions?
- No sir.
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Thank you so much.
Have a good day, okay?
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- [police office] You too.
- [woman] Thank you.
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[newscaster]
The CDC has extended the moratorium
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to protect renters
from getting evicted during the pandemic.
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[reporter] Evictions are legal
if the tenants do not sign a declaration.
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It's incumbent on the tenant
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to give that declaration
to their landlord
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in order for those
CDC protections to take effect.
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So in February of this year,
they were Realsource Property Management.
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And that was
February 19th of 2020.
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The reason that I point that out
is because literally a month,
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March 19th 2020,
they changed their names again to Orlando City Apartment.
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But on my on my eviction,
it says 7M.
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So that's what I
you know, filed it with, 7M.
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So my concern now is,
will the declaration
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still be valid even though
they're changing company names?
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I don't want to get kicked out.
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Because I have my kids,
you know, I don't want to be in the street.
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[voicemail]
Please leave your message. [beeps]
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[Ana]
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[phone ringing]
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[Stephanie Porta]
This is something we learned during the foreclosure crisis.
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Our systems, our culture,
our everything is set up
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to make people feel guilty.
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And one of the powerful
things about organizing is
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having people who are at risk
of foreclosure or eviction
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realize that they're not alone,
that there are systems
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that are set up to cause this,
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and that
we have to band together
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to fight back against
these attacks on our rights.
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- [man]
- [crowd] Power!
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- [man]
- [crowd] Power!
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- [man singing]
- [crowd] Power to the people!
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[Kurt Andersen]
During the late 1960s,
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many of people
in the establishment of the time
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really thought
that there might be this revolution brewing,
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that socialism
was finally going to wash away the American free market system.
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Ho Chi Minh is going to be
riding into the United States essentially.
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And so there was this
paradigm shift that happened
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during the 1960s and then
certainly in the 1970s.
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Milton Friedman
was an incredibly important figure.
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He was at the University
of Chicago, where he was
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at the center of this group
of libertarian economists.
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And they were really
outside the mainstream.
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Personally, of course, I would
get rid of Social Security.
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I've always said it was
one of the great miracles of Madison Avenue packaging.
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What would you do about
the minimum wage law if you could?
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I would abolish it.
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Then, in 1970,
The New York Times Magazine
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invited him to essentially
summarize his beliefs
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in an article that they called
"a Friedman doctrine."
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Please welcome the Nobel
Laureate in economics, Milton Friedman, right here.
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[applause]
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He was making the case
that for businesses, nothing mattered but profits.
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Not the well being
of your employees,
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not the well being
of your communities,
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not the well being
of the larger society.
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All that mattered
was your profits, period.
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He was making a claim about
how human economies worked,
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that the more selfish
business executives were,
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the better
it would be for everyone.
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And that's what people bought.
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The "trick" in trickle down
economics is not believing
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that when the rich get richer,
that's good for the economy.
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The evil part is the belief
that when the poor get richer,
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that will harm the economy.
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And that has been
the basic message
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of our nation's economic system
for the last 40 years.
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[train whistle blows]
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[man] What began as an attempt
to prevent a kind
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of anti-business tide
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became this new
anti-government movement
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of extreme free market-ism
carried to the max.
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The future belongs
to those countries
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that don't straitjacket
the initiative of their people.
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Free markets must be our goal.
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Historically,
we've thought of government as a force for equality.
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But over the last generation,
there's no trickle down occurring, right?
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It's really a story
of trickle up.
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[chattering[
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Look at the minimum wage
over the past 30 years against profitability,
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productivity, inflation,
executive compensation.
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The minimum wage today is far,
far below where it should be relative to the mid-'60s..
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And if you adjust it
relative to productivity,
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minimum wage
should be over $20.
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[Art Cullen] Iowa, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois,
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they all rely
on heavy manufacturing and agricultural exports,
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and those markets
have been absolutely destroyed.
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Wages have dropped
in half since 1975.
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You can't buy
a new house on $16 an hour.
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You just can't.
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When I decided to move home
several years ago,
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I looked at my hometown paper
for a job for about a month,
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and the best job I could get
is $15 an hour and no benefits.
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It just, it's getting
harder and harder to live in rural America.
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Whether it's a McDonald's
or a Dollar General or whatever,
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they hire people
for $10, $12 an hour,
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and the profits
go out of the district.
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That's not benefiting
our society.
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That's not benefiting
our communities.
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The economy
isn't working for here.
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It benefits these
multinational corporations.
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[Tucker Carlson] At least
one person has become
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extremely rich,
richer than any man in history
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from all of this,
including a lot of the suffering.
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That would be
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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Jeff Bezos just yesterday
made $13 billion.
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Income inequality is just the
tip of the inequality iceberg,
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because wealth is kind of the
resource that gets translated into political influence.
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Billionaire donors have billions
and billions of dollars that they can devote to politics.
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Money to get power,
power to get money.
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Without objection,
the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table.
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[newscaster]
Congress today approved a $1.5 trillion tax cut.
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Let me talk
about the tax proposal
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that was pushed very hard
by Senator McConnell
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and the Republican leadership
in that bill.
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Amazon paid nothing
in 2018 in federal taxes.
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But then, on top of that,
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they received
$129 million as a tax rebate.
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That is socialism for the rich.
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[dramatic music playing]
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[numbers ringing up]
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[Chris Smalls]
We gotta take care of ourselves.
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We can't rely on the government.
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We can't rely on
the Democrats, the Republicans,
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and we damn sure can't rely
on the 1% class.
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[Nick Hanauer] I am
a big believer in capitalism,
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but it is ridiculous
to both believe that capitalism is a good economic system,
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and to simultaneously believe
that the whole system will come tumbling down
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if businesspeople are required
to pay people enough to live without government assistance.
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It's either
a good system or it's not.
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That is the minimum standard
we should hold capitalism to.
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[crowd chanting]
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And together, we all have
to be David versus Goliath.
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[crowd singing
"We Wish You a Merry Christmas"]
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[helicopter blades whirring]
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[chattering]
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[chattering]
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We need a fork for here.
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[James] Have you heard
about the cello-something?
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It has, like basically
a fish with human legs.
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There was a David
Attenborough documentary.
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David Hadenborough?
476
00:30:02,583 --> 00:30:05,325
- No, hat-and-bra.
- [Lucas] Hat-and-bra?
477
00:30:06,892 --> 00:30:09,982
[Melissa] I'm proud of all my
kids, they're so different.
478
00:30:10,896 --> 00:30:14,377
Avery is interested in marine
biology and engineering,
479
00:30:14,421 --> 00:30:16,162
and Lucas wants to be a doctor.
480
00:30:17,076 --> 00:30:18,729
James is the wild card.
481
00:30:18,773 --> 00:30:21,820
You know there's such a thing
as a blue axolotl?
482
00:30:24,518 --> 00:30:26,346
[Melissa]
I teach art, I teach yoga.
483
00:30:27,651 --> 00:30:29,523
With three children at home,
484
00:30:30,132 --> 00:30:33,570
I'm just scrambling
to find more work.
485
00:30:33,614 --> 00:30:35,921
Do not be afraid, I am the cure.
486
00:30:35,964 --> 00:30:38,401
But in Marin County,
there's no rent control.
487
00:30:39,228 --> 00:30:41,622
And now that 11%
of San Francisco, I believe,
488
00:30:41,665 --> 00:30:44,059
has moved out of the city
since the pandemic,
489
00:30:44,103 --> 00:30:46,453
the rents have skyrocketed here.
490
00:30:46,975 --> 00:30:50,979
We were given a notice
that we have 60 days to find a new place.
491
00:30:53,590 --> 00:30:56,550
[gulls squawking]
492
00:31:02,208 --> 00:31:04,166
It's been really
stressful on my kids.
493
00:31:05,864 --> 00:31:07,866
But I'm trying
to make it all work.
494
00:31:09,258 --> 00:31:11,870
[waves rumbling]
495
00:31:13,219 --> 00:31:15,874
Art really has a lot
of healing potential.
496
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,790
It's just a great excuse
to be in nature.
497
00:31:25,796 --> 00:31:29,104
That was sort of mean
of Oracle to have that global reduction in workforce
498
00:31:29,148 --> 00:31:31,019
like right the week
of the shutdown.
499
00:31:31,933 --> 00:31:34,544
That was sucky, you know?
500
00:31:36,198 --> 00:31:39,549
They could have kept
people on through the pandemic.
501
00:31:39,854 --> 00:31:41,247
They could've.
502
00:31:43,162 --> 00:31:44,467
But they don't care.
503
00:31:46,948 --> 00:31:49,342
Jeff got three
three months' severance.
504
00:31:49,385 --> 00:31:50,560
That's nothing.
505
00:31:56,175 --> 00:31:58,525
Puts a monkey wrench
into a family's life.
506
00:32:06,881 --> 00:32:10,972
I think people have to
understand that in so many ways
507
00:32:11,016 --> 00:32:14,758
over the last 45 years
in the United States,
508
00:32:14,802 --> 00:32:17,022
the system has
been re-engineered
509
00:32:17,631 --> 00:32:21,722
to make it harder
for most Americans.
510
00:32:21,765 --> 00:32:24,116
And I'm not just talking
about poor Americans.
511
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,771
75, 80% of Americans
512
00:32:28,033 --> 00:32:31,210
to keep their heads
above water economically.
513
00:32:31,253 --> 00:32:33,342
[auctioneer calling out numbers]
514
00:32:44,005 --> 00:32:48,053
The achievement of the economic
right during the '70s and '80s
515
00:32:48,096 --> 00:32:51,534
was to make people think
that it was just this
516
00:32:51,578 --> 00:32:53,972
beautiful, pristine thing,
the free market.
517
00:32:54,276 --> 00:32:59,542
That the government
only fucked up by getting too involved.
518
00:32:59,586 --> 00:33:01,457
But how did we get there?
519
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:07,550
In 1972, '73,
the Business Roundtable formed,
520
00:33:07,594 --> 00:33:11,641
which consisted of the CEOs
of the 200 biggest companies,
521
00:33:11,685 --> 00:33:17,038
lobbying personally
in Washington on behalf of the free enterprise system.
522
00:33:17,865 --> 00:33:22,130
And moreover, there are these
rich billionaires, Charles Koch and his brother David,
523
00:33:22,174 --> 00:33:25,916
being most famous among them,
who understood that they needed
524
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,790
to change the nature
of the public discourse.
525
00:33:31,096 --> 00:33:33,968
We advocate less
government intervention into our personal lives,
526
00:33:34,012 --> 00:33:36,579
less government intervention
into our economic affairs.
527
00:33:37,537 --> 00:33:40,496
So I think that the marketplace
is right for us.
528
00:33:40,540 --> 00:33:42,585
The public is ready
for our ideas.
529
00:33:43,456 --> 00:33:44,848
We have the right product.
530
00:33:45,327 --> 00:33:47,286
All we have to do
is go out and sell it,
531
00:33:47,329 --> 00:33:49,810
and we're going to be
very, very successful.
532
00:33:49,853 --> 00:33:52,595
[applause]
533
00:33:53,118 --> 00:33:54,771
[Kurt Andersen]
And how do you do that?
534
00:33:54,815 --> 00:33:57,209
Well, they began funding
these think tanks.
535
00:33:58,514 --> 00:34:01,865
[Jacob Hacker] The Koch brothers
have created this vast network of organizations
536
00:34:01,909 --> 00:34:04,781
that try to lobby for more
conservative policies.
537
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,222
In one sense,
what the Koch brothers created was a rich people's movement.
538
00:34:11,701 --> 00:34:13,921
Thank you very, very much.
539
00:34:15,575 --> 00:34:19,274
[Kurt Andersen]
In the 1970s, the number of political action committees,
540
00:34:19,318 --> 00:34:22,016
these groups that donate
to political candidates,
541
00:34:22,060 --> 00:34:25,715
went from being, you know, half
of them were union PACs,
542
00:34:25,759 --> 00:34:27,152
half of them were business PACs.
543
00:34:27,195 --> 00:34:28,892
Okay, it's a fair fight.
544
00:34:30,590 --> 00:34:33,680
And then this new
project of the right
545
00:34:33,723 --> 00:34:37,640
began to fight harder and sort
of created, organized capital
546
00:34:38,206 --> 00:34:39,947
to fight organized labor.
547
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:46,867
By the '80s and '90s, it
was overwhelmingly business PACs and trade association PACs
548
00:34:46,910 --> 00:34:49,478
and a tiny fraction were unions.
549
00:34:51,045 --> 00:34:53,134
[Nick Hanauer]
What that amounted to
550
00:34:53,178 --> 00:34:56,529
was a protection racket
for the very rich.
551
00:34:57,486 --> 00:35:02,143
It's just bullshit
and it has been a catastrophe
552
00:35:03,362 --> 00:35:05,886
for everybody but the top 1%.
553
00:35:07,496 --> 00:35:13,111
And it resulted effectively
in an upward redistribution of about $50 trillion
554
00:35:13,676 --> 00:35:15,765
from the bottom 90% of Americans
555
00:35:15,809 --> 00:35:18,290
to the top 1%
over the last 40 years.
556
00:35:23,860 --> 00:35:28,865
[dramatic music playing]
557
00:35:43,010 --> 00:35:44,925
[Eaine] Boston is, it's tough.
558
00:35:46,144 --> 00:35:48,581
My parents are both
immigrants from Haiti.
559
00:35:49,190 --> 00:35:53,151
They'd just go to work,
come home, go to work, come home, go to work.
560
00:35:55,936 --> 00:36:00,810
I was a rebellious teen who
561
00:36:02,072 --> 00:36:05,424
just made
a lot of negative choices.
562
00:36:10,168 --> 00:36:13,388
Some stuff you just don't
talk about after a while.
563
00:36:17,044 --> 00:36:19,699
One of my best friends was shot
564
00:36:19,742 --> 00:36:22,919
on his front steps,
sitting outside.
565
00:36:26,096 --> 00:36:28,186
When that happened,
I was looking for something.
566
00:36:28,229 --> 00:36:31,101
I needed something
to keep me going and I did have a few
567
00:36:31,145 --> 00:36:33,930
different jobs and it still
wasn't enough to make it.
568
00:36:35,323 --> 00:36:36,803
Like, what can I
afford this week?
569
00:36:36,846 --> 00:36:39,632
What bill am I going
to try to pay this week?
570
00:36:39,675 --> 00:36:42,025
What bill am I
not going to pay this week?
571
00:36:42,548 --> 00:36:44,419
You know, my overdraft
in my account.
572
00:36:44,463 --> 00:36:48,206
Those struggles are...
[sighs]
573
00:36:48,423 --> 00:36:51,296
they're, that's a hustle
on its own, to be honest.
574
00:36:51,861 --> 00:36:53,254
It really is.
575
00:36:57,084 --> 00:36:59,521
[dramatic music playing]
576
00:37:06,659 --> 00:37:09,183
[Marty Walsh]
Boston's a great city.
577
00:37:09,227 --> 00:37:10,663
You know, there's a lot of
development going on in every neighborhood in the city.
578
00:37:11,141 --> 00:37:12,708
But it doesn't mean
we don't have inequality.
579
00:37:13,231 --> 00:37:14,754
Inequality is everywhere.
580
00:37:16,712 --> 00:37:18,975
We're not equally
across the board rising all ships.
581
00:37:19,802 --> 00:37:21,848
And I look back
over the last 50 years,
582
00:37:21,891 --> 00:37:23,632
and, you know,
in the '50s and '60s,
583
00:37:23,676 --> 00:37:25,765
there were more people
in the middle class than today.
584
00:37:27,810 --> 00:37:30,900
My parents are from Ireland,
they met here in Boston.
585
00:37:31,814 --> 00:37:34,513
My father joined
the labor union, Local 223.
586
00:37:36,123 --> 00:37:39,082
Being in the labor moment,
it gave us everything we had.
587
00:37:39,126 --> 00:37:41,084
I mean, we weren't rich,
but we had,
588
00:37:41,128 --> 00:37:42,999
we had everything
that we ever needed.
589
00:37:45,741 --> 00:37:47,874
When I was a kid, I used
to go to political rallies
590
00:37:47,917 --> 00:37:50,746
and my father would be always
holding a sign for somebody.
591
00:37:51,965 --> 00:37:55,838
And I just fell in love
with the concept of people helping people.
592
00:37:57,579 --> 00:38:00,669
We owe it to the young
generation right now to make it better,
593
00:38:00,713 --> 00:38:04,369
so as they get older,
go to school or get trained, go into the workforce,
594
00:38:04,412 --> 00:38:06,066
that they're doing better
than their parents.
595
00:38:06,109 --> 00:38:08,242
That's what our country
generally has been,
596
00:38:08,286 --> 00:38:10,897
and that's what we want
for our kids and for our society.
597
00:38:10,940 --> 00:38:14,248
[chattering]
598
00:38:22,430 --> 00:38:25,128
[Eaine] I'm not sure
what my future looks like.
599
00:38:26,956 --> 00:38:30,177
I really don't want to go back
to what I was doing.
600
00:38:31,396 --> 00:38:35,051
But I don't want
to work three jobs.
601
00:38:35,965 --> 00:38:39,186
Nights, weekends, I want a life.
602
00:38:40,405 --> 00:38:43,451
[dramatic music playing]
603
00:38:48,195 --> 00:38:51,372
When this project
of the economic right
604
00:38:51,416 --> 00:38:55,376
began in the '70s,
getting rid of unions was key.
605
00:38:55,420 --> 00:38:58,510
[Ronald Reagan]
This morning at 7AM, the union representing those
606
00:38:58,553 --> 00:39:02,165
who man America's
air traffic control facilities called a strike.
607
00:39:02,209 --> 00:39:05,212
If they do not report
for work within 48 hours,
608
00:39:05,473 --> 00:39:08,824
they have forfeited their jobs
and will be terminated.
609
00:39:09,434 --> 00:39:12,001
[Kurt Andersen]
When Ronald Reagan fired the air traffic control workers,
610
00:39:12,045 --> 00:39:16,310
it was the green light
for big companies to start
611
00:39:16,354 --> 00:39:20,140
crushing workers
whenever they dared to strike.
612
00:39:22,055 --> 00:39:26,364
And that took apart one
of the big legs of the stool
613
00:39:26,407 --> 00:39:29,410
on which this system
of checks and balances
614
00:39:29,454 --> 00:39:32,239
among all the various players
in the economy had stood,
615
00:39:32,587 --> 00:39:34,676
and stood well
for 40 or 50 years.
616
00:39:35,721 --> 00:39:38,550
And then when NAFTA
was being proposed,
617
00:39:38,593 --> 00:39:41,770
workers effectively didn't
have a seat at that table.
618
00:39:41,814 --> 00:39:45,383
[Peter Jennings] The North
American Free Trade Agreement is designed to create
619
00:39:45,426 --> 00:39:48,734
a free trading zone
involving the US, Mexico and Canada.
620
00:39:49,343 --> 00:39:52,868
NAFTA to me is loss of a future.
621
00:39:54,130 --> 00:39:56,655
[Bill Clinton] We cannot
stop global change,
622
00:39:56,698 --> 00:39:59,571
we can only harness
the energy to our benefit.
623
00:40:00,789 --> 00:40:04,271
Today, as I sign
the North American Free Trade Agreement into law,
624
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,056
I do so with this pledge.
625
00:40:07,361 --> 00:40:10,320
To the men and women of our
country who were afraid of these changes,
626
00:40:11,234 --> 00:40:15,064
the gains from this agreement
will be your gains, too...
627
00:40:15,108 --> 00:40:18,633
[voice on radio]
3, 2, 1, fire it!
628
00:40:22,550 --> 00:40:27,773
...because NAFTA means jobs,
American jobs,
629
00:40:30,297 --> 00:40:32,473
and good paying American jobs.
630
00:40:34,127 --> 00:40:35,345
[Kurt Andersen]
Capitalism went global,
631
00:40:36,956 --> 00:40:39,959
and things could be made
and done more cheaply elsewhere.
632
00:40:40,002 --> 00:40:45,921
[reporter]
Trade between the US and China cost Americans 3.7 million jobs.
633
00:40:47,140 --> 00:40:49,490
[Kurt Andersen]
And that happened in other countries, too.
634
00:40:49,534 --> 00:40:54,147
But what other countries did
is expand its social welfare cushion
635
00:40:54,190 --> 00:40:57,106
to take care of those people
who were displaced
636
00:40:57,150 --> 00:41:00,414
by those changes
to retrain them, to get them new jobs.
637
00:41:00,849 --> 00:41:01,937
To take care of them.
638
00:41:03,809 --> 00:41:06,812
The United States really didn't.
639
00:41:19,041 --> 00:41:21,391
- [truck horn honking]
- [Christine] Come on, guy.
640
00:41:26,266 --> 00:41:28,007
I'm surprised I haven't
had a heart attack yet.
641
00:41:32,141 --> 00:41:35,188
I ask Mommy this question
all the damn time.
642
00:41:36,581 --> 00:41:38,539
If you have a heart attack,
643
00:41:39,235 --> 00:41:41,542
then who's going
to take care of us?
644
00:41:41,586 --> 00:41:43,588
That's why I try to relax, Lito.
645
00:41:43,631 --> 00:41:46,112
- That's why I try to...
- But I keep asking her that question
646
00:41:46,155 --> 00:41:48,506
and it's like
you want to die already.
647
00:41:49,071 --> 00:41:50,856
I keep asking you that question,
648
00:41:50,899 --> 00:41:52,640
who's going to take care of us?
Who's going to take care of us?
649
00:41:52,684 --> 00:41:55,077
Well, don't worry about it.
I'm alive, aren't I?
650
00:41:56,339 --> 00:41:57,993
[boy] I ain't being homeless.
651
00:42:07,525 --> 00:42:08,700
And we are here.
652
00:42:11,659 --> 00:42:14,401
[boy chattering]
653
00:42:14,967 --> 00:42:17,273
[door slamming]
654
00:42:19,711 --> 00:42:21,756
Well this year
have been different for me.
655
00:42:23,018 --> 00:42:24,237
Very different.
656
00:42:27,936 --> 00:42:30,286
It can be stressful on Mom,
657
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:35,204
because she needs,
you know, two jobs to get a lot of money.
658
00:42:36,510 --> 00:42:41,167
You know, if I become rich
or just a comedian that has money,
659
00:42:42,734 --> 00:42:45,519
I'll buy like a,
not a big mansion,
660
00:42:45,563 --> 00:42:48,261
just buy a little house
just like other people.
661
00:42:48,304 --> 00:42:53,527
That would help my mom
to stop getting all these jobs.
662
00:42:54,746 --> 00:42:58,271
She should get paid,
you know, like $200, $100,
663
00:42:58,314 --> 00:43:00,490
or $4 million,
that would be good.
664
00:43:00,882 --> 00:43:02,101
Because that's a lot.
665
00:43:13,678 --> 00:43:15,636
[Janet Gornick] When we talk
about work foundling policy,
666
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,552
like child care
and paid leave, I often say
667
00:43:18,596 --> 00:43:20,989
that's when the US is
exceptionally exceptional.
668
00:43:21,033 --> 00:43:23,601
We invest much less
in public childcare
669
00:43:23,862 --> 00:43:25,472
than almost
any other rich country,
670
00:43:25,690 --> 00:43:28,301
and we leave the regulation
of labor market almost,
671
00:43:28,562 --> 00:43:30,956
it's like the Wild West,
it's almost completely silent.
672
00:43:33,175 --> 00:43:36,352
Employees are at the mercy
of their employers.
673
00:43:38,833 --> 00:43:43,621
You know, this new gig economy
and this idea of these at-will employees
674
00:43:44,012 --> 00:43:47,755
allows the employer
to get all of the profit, right,
675
00:43:47,799 --> 00:43:51,106
to all of the reward
and all of the profit and take none of the risk.
676
00:43:53,718 --> 00:43:59,549
So now suddenly the risk is
on the workers who are the least able to manage that risk.
677
00:44:05,077 --> 00:44:09,777
I think it breaks
the social contract that we have between employer and employee.
678
00:44:09,821 --> 00:44:13,476
And I think it does not provide
any of the protections
679
00:44:13,738 --> 00:44:15,435
that employees deserve.
680
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:19,831
[Jacob Hacker] You know, we
don't talk about risk enough.
681
00:44:19,874 --> 00:44:23,051
Especially as this pandemic
has hit so many vulnerable Americans,
682
00:44:23,095 --> 00:44:26,664
we've all become really familiar
with the risk of economic loss,
683
00:44:26,707 --> 00:44:31,538
with the risk of getting sick
and over the last generation, more and more risk
684
00:44:31,581 --> 00:44:36,674
has been shifted from government
and from corporations onto ordinary Americans.
685
00:44:37,936 --> 00:44:41,026
One of the things that is
so important about government
686
00:44:41,069 --> 00:44:42,984
is that it has the ability
687
00:44:43,028 --> 00:44:46,422
to pool risk in a way that even
private insurers can't.
688
00:44:46,466 --> 00:44:48,511
That's why
Social Security works.
689
00:44:48,555 --> 00:44:50,775
That's why
Medicare is so popular, because government
690
00:44:50,818 --> 00:44:54,039
has this unique ability
to pool risk across people
691
00:44:54,082 --> 00:44:56,955
with differing incomes
and different backgrounds
692
00:44:56,998 --> 00:44:59,087
and different risk
of needing health care
693
00:44:59,131 --> 00:45:01,437
or retirement savings,
694
00:45:04,005 --> 00:45:05,703
and to do so in a way
that is more generous for low and middle-income Americans.
695
00:45:07,617 --> 00:45:10,708
And so, as government
has pulled back in these areas,
696
00:45:10,751 --> 00:45:14,015
the system has become
both more risky and less equal.
697
00:45:19,194 --> 00:45:24,852
But it's partly because
Americans have gradually come to accept a kind of credo
698
00:45:24,896 --> 00:45:26,767
of personal responsibility
that says,
699
00:45:26,811 --> 00:45:30,597
"If you are facing troubles,
it must be your fault,"
700
00:45:31,598 --> 00:45:33,818
rather than thinking about
the ways in which public policy
701
00:45:33,861 --> 00:45:36,559
and public officials
have failed them,
702
00:45:37,996 --> 00:45:42,304
we need to restore
that basic sense of shared fate.
703
00:45:42,348 --> 00:45:43,871
[Jenny DePaul] Hi everybody.
704
00:45:45,351 --> 00:45:48,267
I got you shoes.
Yes, they're for you.
705
00:45:48,310 --> 00:45:51,618
[Jacob Hacker]
And we need to tell people who are facing economic crises
706
00:45:51,661 --> 00:45:55,100
that they need to be given
the tools and the resources
707
00:45:55,361 --> 00:46:00,061
to cope with problems
that Americans cannot cope with on their own.
708
00:46:01,149 --> 00:46:05,632
[slow music playing]
709
00:46:13,553 --> 00:46:18,384
[banjo music playing]
710
00:46:32,964 --> 00:46:36,054
Probably on their way
to Alabama, too. [chuckles]
711
00:46:40,101 --> 00:46:45,019
We're on our way to show
some solidarity with the union.
712
00:46:47,587 --> 00:46:52,810
Amazon workers at a warehouse
in Alabama have been voting by mail on whether to unionize.
713
00:46:52,853 --> 00:46:56,465
If successful,
it would be the first union at any Amazon facility,
714
00:46:56,509 --> 00:46:59,164
and it could spark a labor
movement across the country.
715
00:46:59,207 --> 00:47:03,995
What you're doing in Alabama,
it is the most important story that nobody is discussing.
716
00:47:05,518 --> 00:47:09,130
[Chris] Oh, Birmingham DSA
just followed me.
717
00:47:14,005 --> 00:47:17,791
[Olga Miranda] The rebirth of
labor is happening right now as we speak.
718
00:47:17,835 --> 00:47:21,795
Unions have been attacked for so
long that now our young people
719
00:47:21,839 --> 00:47:24,842
are sharing their information
about why it's good to join the union.
720
00:47:27,540 --> 00:47:29,107
The future is promising,
721
00:47:29,150 --> 00:47:31,326
if we continue to fight
and educate more.
722
00:47:33,024 --> 00:47:35,461
But we're all going to fail
if we're not supportive
723
00:47:35,896 --> 00:47:38,594
of this generation
and the demands that they're making.
724
00:47:43,599 --> 00:47:46,820
[Chris] We're outside Amazon
facility in Bessemer.
725
00:47:46,864 --> 00:47:50,389
There's a change of shift
right now, I want to get some workers over here.
726
00:47:52,434 --> 00:47:54,088
Hey, man, you work for Amazon?
727
00:47:54,132 --> 00:47:55,873
You do? How do you like it?
728
00:47:56,177 --> 00:47:58,179
- I just started.
- Oh, you just started working?
729
00:47:58,876 --> 00:48:00,138
Oh, three weeks.
730
00:48:02,140 --> 00:48:04,142
Hey, ma'am, can I ask you
a question real quick?
731
00:48:04,969 --> 00:48:06,579
All right. Thank you.
732
00:48:06,622 --> 00:48:09,712
We want to make sure
y'all get it so we can unionize.
733
00:48:09,974 --> 00:48:11,976
[woman]
734
00:48:12,541 --> 00:48:14,195
Yo bro, you work for Amazon?
735
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:15,631
You gonna vote for that union?
736
00:48:22,769 --> 00:48:25,163
Man, a lot of,
one of the workers,
737
00:48:26,251 --> 00:48:29,341
she outright just said,
"I want no part of it.
738
00:48:29,384 --> 00:48:30,864
I don't want anything
to do with it."
739
00:48:31,299 --> 00:48:32,822
And...
740
00:48:34,476 --> 00:48:36,565
the other worker, he said,
741
00:48:37,827 --> 00:48:39,177
he said he might.
742
00:48:39,742 --> 00:48:41,440
So a lot of them
are on the fence.
743
00:48:41,483 --> 00:48:44,138
It's really
a 50-50 chance right now.
744
00:48:44,182 --> 00:48:45,400
50-50 chance.
745
00:48:48,490 --> 00:48:50,492
In the issue
of working conditions,
746
00:48:50,536 --> 00:48:52,755
I'm very proud
of the wages that we pay.
747
00:48:52,799 --> 00:48:55,410
So we don't believe
that we need a union.
748
00:48:57,369 --> 00:48:59,762
[guest]
The workers have no contracts.
749
00:48:59,806 --> 00:49:02,330
They are at,
real workers can be fired for any cause.
750
00:49:02,983 --> 00:49:05,681
You don't want to go to work
every day and feel unsafe.
751
00:49:05,725 --> 00:49:07,422
[woman] You know the work is
hard, it's gut wrenching,
752
00:49:07,466 --> 00:49:09,903
and that they're
under constant surveillance.
753
00:49:10,121 --> 00:49:12,558
[clock beeping]
754
00:49:13,341 --> 00:49:15,039
[man] We're not treated
as human beings.
755
00:49:15,082 --> 00:49:17,258
We're not even
treated as robots.
756
00:49:17,302 --> 00:49:19,217
We're treated
as part of the data stream.
757
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:21,871
[Krystal Ball]
If you leave your space
758
00:49:21,915 --> 00:49:23,830
and go to the bathroom,
your time is getting docked.
759
00:49:23,873 --> 00:49:26,485
That leads to termination.
760
00:49:26,528 --> 00:49:30,489
[man] Amazon is basically
on this mission to drive price down as much as possible
761
00:49:30,750 --> 00:49:33,883
and squeeze as much
out of their workforce.
762
00:49:34,972 --> 00:49:40,020
[mayor] Less than 10 years ago,
Bessemer was truly at the brink of bankruptcy.
763
00:49:40,064 --> 00:49:44,982
Amazon is the largest
single investment in the city of Bessemer.
764
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:50,291
[Randy Hadley]
Amazon hired a group of union buster consultants,
765
00:49:50,335 --> 00:49:54,730
and they paid each consultant
$3200 a day.
766
00:49:54,774 --> 00:49:56,776
[reporter] And Amazon
made typical anti-union threats.
767
00:49:56,819 --> 00:49:58,343
You're going to lose your wages.
768
00:49:58,647 --> 00:50:00,519
You going to lose your benefits.
769
00:50:00,562 --> 00:50:03,087
We're going to shut
the company down and move somewhere else.
770
00:50:03,130 --> 00:50:06,003
[Steven Greenhouse]
Union organizers are not allowed to set foot on company property,
771
00:50:06,046 --> 00:50:10,181
whereas the company can talk
to the workers 24-7,
772
00:50:10,224 --> 00:50:13,184
with videos, with speeches,
with mandatory meetings.
773
00:50:14,228 --> 00:50:15,882
[Chris Smalls]
That's what they're giving them.
774
00:50:15,925 --> 00:50:17,927
In these meetings,
they're giving them this shit.
775
00:50:21,670 --> 00:50:24,325
[man] "But of course, at the end
of the day, it's always the employee's choice."
776
00:50:24,630 --> 00:50:26,066
[man] Yeah, this is crazy.
777
00:50:26,110 --> 00:50:28,329
This is union busting 101.
778
00:50:28,764 --> 00:50:32,159
You know, if you read this
website for the first time and don't know anything about it,
779
00:50:32,203 --> 00:50:34,205
- You're just scared.
- So it's telling you to vote no.
780
00:50:34,248 --> 00:50:36,685
It's not even giving you
the options.
781
00:50:36,729 --> 00:50:39,514
- It's not neutral.
- And they try to confuse you right there.
782
00:50:39,558 --> 00:50:42,300
They're going to spend
millions of dollars just to stop that.
783
00:50:42,343 --> 00:50:44,128
And then people just realize,
sit back and think like,
784
00:50:44,171 --> 00:50:47,696
you know, why are they fighting
so hard to not have it?
785
00:50:48,958 --> 00:50:51,091
[Chris] You know, I just hope
people understand that.
786
00:50:53,702 --> 00:50:58,751
[tense music playing]
787
00:51:03,060 --> 00:51:07,020
[Kurt Andersen] The very
deliberate crushing of unions
788
00:51:07,064 --> 00:51:09,892
was a huge change
in our politics.
789
00:51:10,154 --> 00:51:13,461
But you could still
have regulations to try to keep
790
00:51:13,505 --> 00:51:19,293
this incredible juggernaut
of lobbying by the rich and powerful in check.
791
00:51:22,775 --> 00:51:24,733
So how do you change
things permanently?
792
00:51:24,777 --> 00:51:26,387
Well, you change law.
793
00:51:27,345 --> 00:51:30,130
You change the way
the judiciary interpret
794
00:51:30,174 --> 00:51:32,089
what is constitutional or not.
795
00:51:33,655 --> 00:51:38,269
A big way that changed is
by billionaire right wingers,
796
00:51:38,312 --> 00:51:41,098
giving $50 million
or $100 million each to all the best law schools.
797
00:51:41,359 --> 00:51:47,147
And, oh, by the way, let's also
start this fraternity mafia, whatever you want to call it.
798
00:51:47,191 --> 00:51:50,716
[newscaster] So what exactly is
the Federalist Society?
799
00:51:50,759 --> 00:51:53,327
[Eric Lipton] The Federalist
Society got started through law schools,
800
00:51:53,371 --> 00:51:55,677
and it's grown
into an organization
801
00:51:55,721 --> 00:51:57,636
incredible influence
in the United States.
802
00:51:59,812 --> 00:52:05,426
Getting conservative judges
on the bench has been a project for multiple decades.
803
00:52:07,602 --> 00:52:11,780
Once you get both the law
and Washington lawmakers,
804
00:52:11,824 --> 00:52:15,349
you could make sure
that those laws
805
00:52:15,393 --> 00:52:18,787
were going to be declared
constitutional or not by judges
806
00:52:18,831 --> 00:52:22,748
you will have essentially
bred in your laboratory through the Federalist Society.
807
00:52:23,662 --> 00:52:27,056
What protects us
against big mistakes being made
808
00:52:27,405 --> 00:52:31,931
is the structure,
the Constitution, the institutions.
809
00:52:32,888 --> 00:52:35,282
[Keith Olbermann]
Today, the Supreme Court of Chief Justice John Roberts
810
00:52:35,326 --> 00:52:38,938
declared that corporations
had all the rights of people.
811
00:52:38,981 --> 00:52:40,940
[Bernie Sanders]
What you have right now
812
00:52:40,983 --> 00:52:44,944
is the undermining of American
democracy as we know it
813
00:52:44,987 --> 00:52:49,557
as a result of the Supreme
Court's five to four Citizens United decision.
814
00:52:50,254 --> 00:52:54,997
There are now no checks
on the ability of corporations to decide our elections.
815
00:52:55,041 --> 00:52:57,435
None.
816
00:52:57,478 --> 00:53:00,873
[Kurt Andersen] Citizens United
was this 2010 decision by the Supreme Court
817
00:53:00,916 --> 00:53:06,357
that said money donated
to politicians is free speech,
818
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:10,622
which made any kind
of campaign finance regulation unconstitutional.
819
00:53:12,624 --> 00:53:16,062
It allows the financial
corruption of our democracy.
820
00:53:16,845 --> 00:53:20,458
That's the most misguided,
naive, uninformed,
821
00:53:21,154 --> 00:53:24,201
egregious decision
of the United States Supreme Court,
822
00:53:24,244 --> 00:53:26,942
I think in the 21st century.
823
00:53:26,986 --> 00:53:28,727
[Mae Frasers] This is something
that's got to turn around
824
00:53:29,293 --> 00:53:33,819
or else we won't have an America
the way we knew America to be.
825
00:53:36,430 --> 00:53:40,608
[Kurt Andersen] These people
keep their eye on their prize.
826
00:53:40,652 --> 00:53:44,960
And that is the through line,
beginning with the zealotry of Milton Friedman
827
00:53:45,004 --> 00:53:48,312
through the Kochs,
through Mitch McConnell.
828
00:53:48,877 --> 00:53:50,314
They won.
829
00:53:53,534 --> 00:53:57,538
A pandemic-related
ban on evictions has been overturned.
830
00:53:57,973 --> 00:54:03,196
A federal judge ruled
the CDC's national moratorium exceeds the agency's authority.
831
00:54:03,240 --> 00:54:06,547
The ruling could affect millions
of struggling Americans.
832
00:54:06,591 --> 00:54:09,158
[woman] Koch Industries
is involved in that.
833
00:54:09,202 --> 00:54:13,511
In February, the organizations
they've worked with convinced a federal judge in Texas
834
00:54:13,554 --> 00:54:16,949
to declare the CDC's eviction
moratorium unconstitutional.
835
00:54:16,992 --> 00:54:21,301
[David Sirota]
Those cases have been brought by a trio of groups
836
00:54:21,345 --> 00:54:24,609
that have gotten a lot of money
from the Charles Koch Foundation,
837
00:54:24,652 --> 00:54:27,264
about 7.7 million dollars.
838
00:54:27,612 --> 00:54:30,963
Koch Industries
sees a huge opportunity
839
00:54:31,006 --> 00:54:32,921
in the housing market.
840
00:54:35,054 --> 00:54:36,664
[Stephanie Porta]
Corporations learned from the last housing crisis
841
00:54:36,708 --> 00:54:39,972
that it was better to invest
by just buying the homes
842
00:54:40,015 --> 00:54:43,584
instead of making money
off the mortgage and selling it.
843
00:54:44,455 --> 00:54:49,721
55% of home sales
right now in Orlando are being bought by corporations.
844
00:54:50,374 --> 00:54:52,419
And they are buying houses
845
00:54:52,463 --> 00:54:56,205
at 20% above asking rate.
846
00:54:57,119 --> 00:54:59,252
How does anybody
compete with that?
847
00:55:00,297 --> 00:55:02,342
[David Sirota]
Now you could argue, listen, that's capitalism.
848
00:55:02,603 --> 00:55:04,953
But that's the whole point
of the eviction bans.
849
00:55:04,997 --> 00:55:08,348
They are designed to say
that at least in the middle of a pandemic,
850
00:55:08,392 --> 00:55:12,221
in the middle of an economic
crisis, we can't just allow landlords
851
00:55:12,265 --> 00:55:14,833
in a mass way to throw
people out on the street.
852
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:20,317
- All right, turn it straight.
- Turn it straight, turn it straight.
853
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:22,493
[warning beeping]
854
00:55:22,754 --> 00:55:25,844
[chattering]
855
00:55:27,411 --> 00:55:31,850
They evicted us after we gave
them a paper that told them that, you know, we weren't
856
00:55:31,893 --> 00:55:35,157
supposed to get evicted
until December 31st and they still evicted us.
857
00:55:35,767 --> 00:55:38,204
That doesn't make sense.
It don't.
858
00:55:39,510 --> 00:55:42,643
[man] And these people are
robbing them, and then they are putting it to the last.
859
00:55:42,687 --> 00:55:45,298
It's sad that these families
and these young kids
860
00:55:45,646 --> 00:55:48,562
and during a pandemic
are being put out on the street.
861
00:55:49,128 --> 00:55:50,825
This cannot be allowed.
862
00:55:52,827 --> 00:55:54,873
Where the fuck them kids
gonna go at?
863
00:55:58,355 --> 00:56:02,271
Pretty much, we're going to just
finish getting everything out of the way.
864
00:56:02,315 --> 00:56:04,186
Go to a storage
and move everything into the storage
865
00:56:04,230 --> 00:56:05,449
and go to a hotel room.
866
00:56:06,928 --> 00:56:08,365
We're just going to do
what we need to do.
867
00:56:12,978 --> 00:56:14,806
I'm looking for storage units.
868
00:56:16,329 --> 00:56:19,811
Next door yesterday they put
my friend out, my neighbor,
869
00:56:20,681 --> 00:56:25,382
and they had what I thought
was a legal document, you know, to help them, you know, stay.
870
00:56:25,425 --> 00:56:31,388
But unfortunately, the sheriffs
nor the management company would accept the paperwork.
871
00:56:32,171 --> 00:56:34,260
And they, you know,
they kicked them out.
872
00:56:36,044 --> 00:56:37,655
And I don't want that
to happen to me.
873
00:56:40,005 --> 00:56:42,137
[dramatic music playing]
874
00:56:43,138 --> 00:56:45,576
[drill rattling]
875
00:56:55,412 --> 00:56:58,327
[solemn music playing]
876
00:57:14,256 --> 00:57:17,912
[solemn music playing]
877
00:57:30,142 --> 00:57:35,060
I know that there's
sufferings that I won't be able
878
00:57:35,103 --> 00:57:38,193
to prevent my children
from having to experience,
879
00:57:39,281 --> 00:57:41,675
like the fact that the middle
class is being eliminated.
880
00:57:41,936 --> 00:57:45,810
There are super-wealthy,
and then
881
00:57:45,853 --> 00:57:48,900
there just doesn't
seem to be a place for people that aren't
882
00:57:51,250 --> 00:57:52,599
financially well-to-do.
883
00:57:52,991 --> 00:57:55,907
Society doesn't value
taking care of me as well.
884
00:58:04,481 --> 00:58:07,875
[wind rustling]
885
00:58:14,186 --> 00:58:16,449
[Melissa]
886
00:58:40,299 --> 00:58:44,564
[soft music playing]
887
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:49,438
Hello, hello. How are you?
888
00:58:49,656 --> 00:58:50,962
How are you señor?
889
00:58:53,094 --> 00:58:54,748
[Melissa]
We've been here for 12 years.
890
00:58:55,183 --> 00:58:57,708
The school has been here
for twelve and a half.
891
00:58:57,751 --> 00:59:00,362
So it started out here
with just two bathrooms,
892
00:59:00,406 --> 00:59:03,627
this little hallway,
and this room.
893
00:59:03,670 --> 00:59:08,327
The idea that people should just
pick up and move to a cheaper market somewhere
894
00:59:08,370 --> 00:59:11,373
overlooks the fact that human
beings are social creatures.
895
00:59:12,940 --> 00:59:15,813
And we need and thrive
on that community.
896
00:59:16,814 --> 00:59:20,774
Just as a joke. I asked
if I could paint sardines in the boy's bathroom.
897
00:59:25,649 --> 00:59:28,390
Being very close to the water,
898
00:59:28,434 --> 00:59:30,131
my children love the ocean.
899
00:59:34,527 --> 00:59:38,400
We're on a really lovely,
lovely swim team,
900
00:59:39,663 --> 00:59:41,665
And Jeff's on the board
of the swim team.
901
00:59:44,668 --> 00:59:48,628
You put people in a situation
where they know nobody, where they have no connection,
902
00:59:48,672 --> 00:59:51,718
where they have no prospects,
and they're not going to succeed.
903
00:59:52,023 --> 00:59:53,894
[dogs barking]
904
01:00:03,251 --> 01:00:06,037
There's a little one right here.
What about this guy?
905
01:00:08,561 --> 01:00:11,303
- That's the perfect one.
- How much is it?
906
01:00:12,478 --> 01:00:14,045
How about we do $100?
907
01:00:16,482 --> 01:00:17,657
$100?
908
01:00:20,573 --> 01:00:21,966
[interviewer] Do you think
you'll be able to stay here?
909
01:00:24,229 --> 01:00:25,622
Uh, I don't know.
910
01:00:27,711 --> 01:00:30,104
There's lots of beautiful
places in the world.
911
01:00:32,585 --> 01:00:34,065
Right, I am not sure.
912
01:00:40,462 --> 01:00:42,377
[Melissa] We're trying
to put our nice ones,
913
01:00:42,421 --> 01:00:44,379
it seems like our ornaments
have dwindled.
914
01:00:44,423 --> 01:00:45,990
[James] Because they get lost.
915
01:00:46,033 --> 01:00:47,818
[Melissa] No, they get broken.
916
01:00:51,430 --> 01:00:53,650
My family can barely
afford to live here.
917
01:00:55,086 --> 01:00:57,741
[Melissa] James, come on,
let's decorate the Christmas tree.
918
01:00:59,786 --> 01:01:02,746
[Avery] Most of the people
who live here are lawyers,
919
01:01:02,789 --> 01:01:06,793
like businessmen, stockbrokers,
but not really any
920
01:01:06,837 --> 01:01:09,666
like other professionals
that are kind of, I guess,
921
01:01:09,709 --> 01:01:12,799
in the lower income bracket
of the middle class.
922
01:01:14,366 --> 01:01:17,674
We have to move
and we don't know where we're going to go.
923
01:01:19,806 --> 01:01:22,591
[interviewer] Do you think
they're going to build any affordable housing here?
924
01:01:22,635 --> 01:01:25,246
Oh hell no.
Under no circumstances.
925
01:01:25,725 --> 01:01:26,857
No, no, no, no.
926
01:01:28,380 --> 01:01:30,382
Yeah, that's just,
that's just not going to happen.
927
01:01:37,302 --> 01:01:39,521
[Kurt Andersen]
We're never going to divide everything absolutely equally.
928
01:01:40,348 --> 01:01:43,917
But if you did divide
everything absolutely equally in the United States today,
929
01:01:44,788 --> 01:01:48,269
the average household
would have almost a million dollars in wealth,
930
01:01:48,748 --> 01:01:52,839
and the average household
would have some decent six-figure income.
931
01:01:53,797 --> 01:01:56,756
Everybody would be
what we think of as upper middle class.
932
01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:58,018
Everyone.
933
01:02:02,806 --> 01:02:06,635
It's crazy to me
how much we have here and how much more
934
01:02:06,679 --> 01:02:10,901
we're going to have
as a society as AI does
935
01:02:10,944 --> 01:02:13,773
the astounding things
that AI will continue to do
936
01:02:13,817 --> 01:02:16,994
in terms of being able
to produce things cheaply, you know?
937
01:02:19,518 --> 01:02:22,216
We need to begin
getting the system
938
01:02:22,260 --> 01:02:28,614
more fair again before AI
and robotics and technology
939
01:02:28,657 --> 01:02:35,229
really takes off,
because there just won't be enough good paying jobs
940
01:02:35,839 --> 01:02:40,582
to give all Americans
a decent, livable wage.
941
01:02:42,889 --> 01:02:46,023
With AI, lawyers' jobs,
teachers' jobs,
942
01:02:46,066 --> 01:02:50,592
all these white collar jobs
will continue to be affected.
943
01:02:52,072 --> 01:02:53,421
It's not going to stop.
944
01:03:00,341 --> 01:03:02,387
Technology is a neutral thing.
945
01:03:02,822 --> 01:03:06,130
It can kill jobs,
it can destroy livelihoods.
946
01:03:06,173 --> 01:03:09,960
It can also create prosperity
shareable by all.
947
01:03:11,700 --> 01:03:13,050
It won't end well
948
01:03:14,007 --> 01:03:15,704
unless we make it fairer now.
949
01:03:29,675 --> 01:03:32,156
[plastic rustling]
950
01:03:46,126 --> 01:03:48,302
Gonna be
sign planting today, baby.
951
01:03:52,916 --> 01:03:55,788
[April Sims]
Giving workers the power that an active trade
952
01:03:55,832 --> 01:03:58,835
union movement gives them
is a piece of the solution.
953
01:03:59,836 --> 01:04:01,011
It's just not the whole thing.
954
01:04:02,577 --> 01:04:04,884
It's not just about wages,
benefits and working conditions,
955
01:04:04,928 --> 01:04:06,843
although that is an important
part of what we do.
956
01:04:09,497 --> 01:04:13,066
We have to start figuring out
ways to tilt back the scales that were so badly tilted
957
01:04:13,110 --> 01:04:16,809
with the attacks
on workers' rights and our right to join unions,
958
01:04:18,376 --> 01:04:22,684
[slow music playing]
959
01:04:24,599 --> 01:04:27,733
- Who are we?
- The Congress of Potential Workers.
960
01:04:27,776 --> 01:04:30,997
- Who are we?
- The Congress of Potential Workers.
961
01:04:32,912 --> 01:04:34,000
[April Sims]
You can't lose heart.
962
01:04:34,653 --> 01:04:36,481
It's a long march.
963
01:04:37,525 --> 01:04:40,877
[group chanting]
964
01:04:41,965 --> 01:04:43,836
Shut. It. Down!
965
01:04:59,286 --> 01:05:02,202
[Christina]
So what part of the lesson was most difficult for me?
966
01:05:03,769 --> 01:05:06,250
Trying to remember
the higher numbers because we had to keep
967
01:05:06,293 --> 01:05:08,382
going back and cross
referencing the others.
968
01:05:08,426 --> 01:05:10,558
- I don't know how much more...
- I don't care.
969
01:05:10,602 --> 01:05:13,866
about you
to follow directions when I tell you to do something.
970
01:05:13,910 --> 01:05:16,086
- You're everything to me.
- Yes, that's right.
971
01:05:16,521 --> 01:05:19,654
Pretty soon you have to be out
and get a job, too, and you'll have to follow directions.
972
01:05:20,307 --> 01:05:23,658
Scroll up, turn in.
That wasn't hard, was it?
973
01:05:23,702 --> 01:05:24,877
- No.
- Get back.
974
01:05:24,921 --> 01:05:26,705
All done, all done.
975
01:05:27,575 --> 01:05:29,142
Very good.
976
01:05:46,159 --> 01:05:47,856
[clears throat]
977
01:05:51,817 --> 01:05:54,776
[Christina] I mean, it's given
me a good run, I had the truck for five years,
978
01:05:54,820 --> 01:05:59,129
and you try to fix little things
here and there to keep it going,
979
01:05:59,172 --> 01:06:02,871
but with this job,
I'm not making enough.
980
01:06:03,611 --> 01:06:06,310
I've tried to apply
for a loan through the SBA.
981
01:06:06,353 --> 01:06:07,441
That's a nightmare.
982
01:06:08,225 --> 01:06:10,836
I tried to apply for the PPP.
983
01:06:10,879 --> 01:06:13,752
They denied me for that
because it was not the accurate information.
984
01:06:15,928 --> 01:06:19,236
I did reach out to Bergen County
three months ago for child care help,
985
01:06:19,497 --> 01:06:21,978
and it's been three months
since I heard from them.
986
01:06:25,546 --> 01:06:26,983
You just...
987
01:06:29,202 --> 01:06:30,638
I really want to give up,
988
01:06:31,248 --> 01:06:34,077
because I'm just so tired.
[sobbing]
989
01:06:39,299 --> 01:06:41,214
I don't know. I don't,
I don't sleep much at night.
990
01:06:41,258 --> 01:06:44,043
So I just lay there and I think,
and I think and I think
991
01:06:44,087 --> 01:06:47,307
and I think and I know that
992
01:06:48,265 --> 01:06:50,093
I can't
rid myself off of the world
993
01:06:50,136 --> 01:06:52,573
because there's no one
for them to take care of them.
994
01:06:52,617 --> 01:06:54,401
So obviously, I know
I can't go anywhere.
995
01:06:54,706 --> 01:06:57,056
But it hurts to know
that you're going to wake up
996
01:06:57,100 --> 01:06:59,319
to try to go do the same thing
you're doing every day
997
01:06:59,363 --> 01:07:02,670
sitting here,
and getting nowhere by the end of the week.
998
01:07:05,195 --> 01:07:09,286
But I blame myself because
I can't figure out a way out,
999
01:07:10,330 --> 01:07:12,985
and I've always been able
to figure a way out.
1000
01:07:13,029 --> 01:07:15,292
And I can't.
1001
01:07:15,335 --> 01:07:18,730
My kids literally hate me
because I can't fix the problems of the world.
1002
01:07:21,646 --> 01:07:25,345
So that's why I blame myself,
and I know it's not my fault,
1003
01:07:26,781 --> 01:07:30,046
but there's no way out
and we're still here.
1004
01:07:30,829 --> 01:07:34,267
You're still in
the same fucking position.
1005
01:07:36,095 --> 01:07:39,098
I don't know what else to do.
1006
01:07:40,969 --> 01:07:42,884
[sniffles]
1007
01:07:49,978 --> 01:07:54,505
[solemn music playing]
1008
01:08:07,561 --> 01:08:10,608
[helicopter blades whirring]
1009
01:08:12,914 --> 01:08:16,527
[sirens blaring]
1010
01:08:24,491 --> 01:08:28,582
[people chattering]
1011
01:08:34,893 --> 01:08:38,244
It's important to understand
that those same forces that have radicalized
1012
01:08:38,288 --> 01:08:41,813
the Republican Party
have cross-pressured the Democratic Party.
1013
01:08:41,856 --> 01:08:44,250
[cheering]
1014
01:08:44,294 --> 01:08:46,818
[man] The Democrats,
starting in the '70s and certainly by the '80s
1015
01:08:46,861 --> 01:08:52,171
and '90s,
abdicated responsibility for a distinct left vision
1016
01:08:52,215 --> 01:08:53,868
on the economic front.
1017
01:08:53,912 --> 01:08:56,001
We have to change the way
the government works.
1018
01:08:56,044 --> 01:08:58,308
Let's make it smaller,
less costly and smarter.
1019
01:08:58,699 --> 01:09:00,353
Leaner and not meaner.
1020
01:09:00,397 --> 01:09:02,573
[cheering]
1021
01:09:03,487 --> 01:09:06,098
[man] That's where the Democrats
dropped the ball.
1022
01:09:06,142 --> 01:09:10,668
[Jimmy Carter] Government
cannot eliminate poverty or provide a bountiful economy
1023
01:09:10,711 --> 01:09:15,238
or reduce inflation
or save our cities or cure illiteracy or provide energy.
1024
01:09:15,586 --> 01:09:17,631
[Barack Obama] Our most urgent
task upon taking office,
1025
01:09:18,197 --> 01:09:21,461
was to shore up the same banks
that helped cause this crisis.
1026
01:09:21,505 --> 01:09:24,029
[Kayla Tausche] President Biden
pounded the podium in Georgia today,
1027
01:09:24,072 --> 01:09:26,814
advocating to pass
two voting rights bills.
1028
01:09:26,858 --> 01:09:31,689
Many activist groups were
absent, demanding less talk from the president, more action.
1029
01:09:32,646 --> 01:09:34,431
[Jacob Hacker] I think one of
the most important things
1030
01:09:34,474 --> 01:09:37,085
that we should recognize
is that if you're going
1031
01:09:37,129 --> 01:09:40,132
to have wealthy people
using their financial resources
1032
01:09:40,393 --> 01:09:44,571
that you have to give
the rest of Americans the ability to use the one
1033
01:09:44,615 --> 01:09:47,139
political resources they have,
which is the right to vote.
1034
01:09:47,792 --> 01:09:49,576
[Anderson Cooper] Georgia's
governor, late this evening,
1035
01:09:49,620 --> 01:09:52,753
signing draconian new voter
registration measures into law.
1036
01:09:52,797 --> 01:09:54,015
[bell dings]
1037
01:09:54,059 --> 01:09:56,235
There being 81 ayes, 64 nays,
1038
01:09:56,279 --> 01:09:58,019
SB7 has passed
the third reading.
1039
01:09:58,411 --> 01:10:00,718
[commentator] They set up the
circumstances under which
1040
01:10:00,761 --> 01:10:03,373
a vote can essentially
be nullified or overturned.
1041
01:10:04,156 --> 01:10:07,507
[Jacob Hacker] Democracy works
when it works because of the idea
1042
01:10:07,551 --> 01:10:11,424
that political elites have to be
responsive to the citizens.
1043
01:10:12,469 --> 01:10:16,951
The tilt that's taken place
isn't just about government helping out the rich.
1044
01:10:16,995 --> 01:10:18,649
It's also that government
is doing nothing.
1045
01:10:19,302 --> 01:10:22,305
[woman] It's been almost three
months without me having a home.
1046
01:10:22,348 --> 01:10:24,611
It's so hard to try
to hold it together.
1047
01:10:24,655 --> 01:10:28,093
It's really hard, there's so
many people out here now.
1048
01:10:28,136 --> 01:10:30,095
[man] They don't invest in us.
1049
01:10:30,138 --> 01:10:31,575
They don't show us
the resources.
1050
01:10:32,140 --> 01:10:34,969
[woman] You can't win.
The game is fixed.
1051
01:10:35,013 --> 01:10:37,189
So the social contract
is broken.
1052
01:10:40,758 --> 01:10:44,370
We're going to see
increasing inequality, and growing numbers of people
1053
01:10:44,414 --> 01:10:50,681
who cannot make ends meet
and more destructiveness in our politics.
1054
01:10:50,724 --> 01:10:52,465
I swear to God!
1055
01:10:52,509 --> 01:10:55,425
You're ignoring the people
you're supposed to protect!
1056
01:10:56,339 --> 01:11:01,126
[Nick Hanauer] There is no
example in human history where if you let a society
1057
01:11:01,169 --> 01:11:06,131
become as unequal as ours is,
the society will not fall
1058
01:11:06,174 --> 01:11:10,135
into authoritarianism,
a police state or a revolution.
1059
01:11:11,571 --> 01:11:12,964
It's just not sustainable.
1060
01:11:13,007 --> 01:11:15,227
The system is going to collapse.
1061
01:11:19,362 --> 01:11:22,626
[yelling and banging]
1062
01:11:25,411 --> 01:11:27,935
[loud thumps]
1063
01:11:29,894 --> 01:11:34,768
[Jacob Hacker] The January 6th
Insurrection is a symptom of a political system
1064
01:11:34,812 --> 01:11:38,206
that is being undermined
by right-wing demagoguery.
1065
01:11:40,992 --> 01:11:46,040
And this might seem like
it's just a bunch of people who got really angry,
1066
01:11:46,084 --> 01:11:51,394
but this is the first assault
on the capital since the War of 1812.
1067
01:11:52,830 --> 01:11:56,790
There is no greater sign
of democratic fragility
1068
01:11:56,834 --> 01:12:00,359
than a mob attacking the seat
of power in Washington.
1069
01:12:00,881 --> 01:12:03,580
[dramatic music playing]
1070
01:12:05,408 --> 01:12:10,543
We've faced big challenges
to our democracy before, the Civil War,
1071
01:12:11,239 --> 01:12:14,547
the twin threats of the Great
Depression and the World War.
1072
01:12:15,243 --> 01:12:19,465
This is the third great
challenge to our democracy since our founding.
1073
01:12:20,684 --> 01:12:22,425
And it could turn
for the better.
1074
01:12:22,468 --> 01:12:24,557
Or it could turn
very much for the worse.
1075
01:12:28,474 --> 01:12:32,086
[tense music playing]
1076
01:12:32,565 --> 01:12:38,179
As long as the Republican Party
can win through division and undermining democracy,
1077
01:12:38,223 --> 01:12:40,791
it will not be pressured
to try to respond
1078
01:12:40,834 --> 01:12:45,186
to the felt economic concerns
of those who vote for it,
1079
01:12:45,230 --> 01:12:48,799
or, much less, those
who don't vote for it.
1080
01:12:52,368 --> 01:12:57,068
[men yelling]
1081
01:13:05,642 --> 01:13:09,733
[police yelling]
1082
01:13:10,864 --> 01:13:13,476
We need to recognize
that at the root
1083
01:13:13,519 --> 01:13:16,566
of the crisis we face today
is runaway inequality.
1084
01:13:18,132 --> 01:13:22,615
Runaway inequality leads
to the kind of anger and radicalization
1085
01:13:23,050 --> 01:13:26,097
that we see in what happened
on January 6th.
1086
01:13:26,489 --> 01:13:30,754
And until we provide
a stronger economy for all Americans,
1087
01:13:31,058 --> 01:13:34,540
we'll be vulnerable
to this kind of radicalization.
1088
01:13:36,934 --> 01:13:41,417
[crowd] USA! USA! USA!
1089
01:14:05,092 --> 01:14:07,399
[wind rustling]
1090
01:14:10,271 --> 01:14:12,056
It was a hard winter.
1091
01:14:12,099 --> 01:14:13,840
[turn signal beeping]
1092
01:14:16,321 --> 01:14:19,498
The number of people out here
experiencing homelessness has increased for sure.
1093
01:14:21,413 --> 01:14:23,633
I would say like 40%.
1094
01:14:23,676 --> 01:14:26,505
I mean, I serve
a lot more people than I ever had.
1095
01:14:26,810 --> 01:14:28,115
You're here again.
1096
01:14:31,336 --> 01:14:33,381
Do you want this? I know.
1097
01:14:34,208 --> 01:14:36,820
It's not a blanket,
but it's a big like...
1098
01:14:37,473 --> 01:14:40,954
[Jenny] Sometimes
when you see this need, that looks so overwhelming,
1099
01:14:41,302 --> 01:14:45,350
I think maybe it's just
easier to look away, right?
1100
01:14:45,393 --> 01:14:47,613
Because it's easy
to get discouraged.
1101
01:14:49,528 --> 01:14:52,575
- Oh, you all right.
- Okay, tell them,
1102
01:14:52,618 --> 01:14:54,490
- you tell them to call me
at this number, - I surely will.
1103
01:14:54,533 --> 01:14:56,622
And if they need a mattress,
I will get you a mattress.
1104
01:14:56,666 --> 01:14:58,537
- Yes ma'am. Thank you so much.
- Okay?
1105
01:14:58,581 --> 01:15:00,496
- I love you.
- All right, I love you too.
1106
01:15:02,498 --> 01:15:05,892
I think if we just take a second
and look around and connect
1107
01:15:05,936 --> 01:15:08,068
with the people around us,
1108
01:15:10,723 --> 01:15:12,333
you just never know what's
going to come from that, and that's kind of how I started.
1109
01:15:14,466 --> 01:15:19,776
We're all, I mean, I know I am,
you know, one paycheck away from becoming homeless.
1110
01:15:21,212 --> 01:15:23,083
Hi.
1111
01:15:24,432 --> 01:15:26,260
Do you want a drink?
1112
01:15:28,480 --> 01:15:31,657
It's easy to get here,
it's really difficult to get out of it.
1113
01:15:34,878 --> 01:15:37,881
[soft music playing]
1114
01:15:48,544 --> 01:15:51,982
[waves hissing]
1115
01:16:03,471 --> 01:16:05,430
[Avery] I've wanted to join
the military for a while,
1116
01:16:05,473 --> 01:16:08,564
and I kind of finally decided
on the Navy this year.
1117
01:16:10,522 --> 01:16:15,353
It's a guaranteed job, like,
and those are kind of hard to get nowadays.
1118
01:16:16,310 --> 01:16:19,226
And I'll be able to like
tour the United States.
1119
01:16:21,054 --> 01:16:22,447
I'm just really excited.
1120
01:16:24,057 --> 01:16:26,320
[Melissa] Everybody please,
come and sit down.
1121
01:16:26,364 --> 01:16:27,713
[Avery] Delayed entry program,
got to graduate high school and then...
1122
01:16:31,021 --> 01:16:32,805
But you want to go, right?
1123
01:16:32,849 --> 01:16:34,590
Yeah, the four of them
signed my contract.
1124
01:16:40,291 --> 01:16:42,859
[windchimes tinkling]
1125
01:16:44,251 --> 01:16:47,603
[dramatic music playing]
1126
01:16:51,171 --> 01:16:54,827
[water gurgling]
1127
01:17:06,796 --> 01:17:08,885
[Melissa] I needed a little
metal container.
1128
01:17:08,928 --> 01:17:12,366
I had something from my felting.
1129
01:17:16,283 --> 01:17:20,331
[Jacob Hacker] The pandemic
sent a clear message that all of us are vulnerable
1130
01:17:20,374 --> 01:17:23,116
and we need to work together
to deal with this.
1131
01:17:25,118 --> 01:17:29,601
But the fact that the
stock market was booming and that many companies
1132
01:17:29,645 --> 01:17:32,952
were pulling in huge profits
even as they were laying off workers
1133
01:17:32,996 --> 01:17:35,128
sent a very different message,
1134
01:17:35,172 --> 01:17:39,698
that well, some of us are
vulnerable, but some of us can opt out.
1135
01:17:42,135 --> 01:17:48,228
What I think we need to scream
to elites first and foremost is that this is not sustainable.
1136
01:17:50,013 --> 01:17:55,496
We cannot go on with a democracy
and economy that works as badly as ours does.
1137
01:17:59,718 --> 01:18:03,287
We need to fix our democracy
and fix our economy together.
1138
01:18:04,244 --> 01:18:06,029
We can't fix one
without the other.
1139
01:18:07,987 --> 01:18:10,511
[engine turning over]
1140
01:18:13,993 --> 01:18:19,172
[soft music playing]
1141
01:18:34,187 --> 01:18:39,671
[wistful music playing]
1142
01:18:54,642 --> 01:18:56,296
Touching history right here.
1143
01:18:57,820 --> 01:18:59,082
I like this quote.
1144
01:18:59,343 --> 01:19:01,911
"If you see something
that is not right,
1145
01:19:02,476 --> 01:19:05,915
you have a moral obligation
to do something about it."
1146
01:19:06,306 --> 01:19:07,655
John Lewis.
1147
01:19:08,047 --> 01:19:09,570
That's what we've been doing.
1148
01:19:10,528 --> 01:19:11,964
Getting into good trouble.
1149
01:19:13,966 --> 01:19:16,360
[applause]
1150
01:19:17,491 --> 01:19:19,145
[John Lewis] My friends,
1151
01:19:21,060 --> 01:19:24,455
let us not forget
that we are involved in a serious social revolution.
1152
01:19:27,719 --> 01:19:30,417
We march today
for jobs and freedom.
1153
01:19:32,463 --> 01:19:35,205
Those who have said,
"Be patient and wait,"
1154
01:19:35,771 --> 01:19:38,121
We must say
that we cannot be patient.
1155
01:19:39,949 --> 01:19:43,213
We will march
with the spirit of love
1156
01:19:43,256 --> 01:19:46,259
and with the spirit of dignity
that we have shown here today.
1157
01:19:47,957 --> 01:19:50,786
We must wake up America,
wake up.
1158
01:19:50,829 --> 01:19:54,615
For we cannot stop
and we will not and cannot be patient.
1159
01:19:55,442 --> 01:19:58,184
[crowd cheering]
1160
01:20:01,448 --> 01:20:04,843
[Kurt Andersen] I am a believer
in cycles, and so I get hopeful if I imagine that we're
1161
01:20:04,887 --> 01:20:07,803
at the beginning of a new cycle
where people wake up and go,
1162
01:20:08,064 --> 01:20:10,414
"Yeah, this isn't the way it's
supposed to be,
1163
01:20:10,457 --> 01:20:12,590
and shouldn't
society be fairer?"
1164
01:20:21,947 --> 01:20:23,775
[Marty Walsh] Right now, as I
sit in front of this camera,
1165
01:20:24,907 --> 01:20:27,692
the unemployment rate
in America is 6.1%.
1166
01:20:27,735 --> 01:20:30,782
The unemployment rate
for the black community is 9.7%,
1167
01:20:30,826 --> 01:20:33,219
the unemployment rate
for the Latino community is 7.3%.
1168
01:20:34,307 --> 01:20:35,961
Whenever this film is shown,
1169
01:20:36,005 --> 01:20:37,397
the numbers might
not be that high.
1170
01:20:39,051 --> 01:20:41,532
But I will tell you one thing.
1171
01:20:41,575 --> 01:20:43,273
The discrepancy between white
and black and Latino will be the same.
1172
01:20:46,102 --> 01:20:48,887
If we're going to be
serious about those issues and truly want to be equitable,
1173
01:20:48,931 --> 01:20:50,846
we need to make sure
we continue to work together.
1174
01:20:52,325 --> 01:20:54,545
You know, as mayor of the city,
probably one of the things I'm
1175
01:20:54,588 --> 01:20:56,329
most proud of
is Building Pathways.
1176
01:20:58,766 --> 01:21:00,856
It's a pre-apprentice program
that was started through the building trades.
1177
01:21:01,726 --> 01:21:04,598
We worked together
with businesses, with industry.
1178
01:21:04,642 --> 01:21:06,905
How's the side going,
is that going good?
1179
01:21:06,949 --> 01:21:08,646
[Marty Walsh]
We brought everyone to the table to address the problem.
1180
01:21:10,691 --> 01:21:14,130
Marty is a great guy,
and he is the reason why Boston
1181
01:21:14,173 --> 01:21:18,961
is a very strong union city,
probably the strongest in the country.
1182
01:21:19,004 --> 01:21:20,223
Thank you sir.
1183
01:21:20,832 --> 01:21:22,573
[Leonard Monfredo]
I'm successful,
1184
01:21:22,616 --> 01:21:25,141
but everyone that works with me
is successful as well.
1185
01:21:26,011 --> 01:21:28,666
I am a prefab welder.
1186
01:21:28,709 --> 01:21:31,451
As you're an apprentice,
there's like things you kind of just do.
1187
01:21:31,495 --> 01:21:33,584
Like you get a new car when
you're a second year,
1188
01:21:33,627 --> 01:21:37,805
you buy a house when you're
either a third or a fourth year.
1189
01:21:39,285 --> 01:21:41,809
So I bought a house at 24.
1190
01:21:44,551 --> 01:21:47,467
[Leonardo Monfredo]
And so at the end of the day, the only thing I can do
1191
01:21:47,511 --> 01:21:49,252
for anyone
is give them an opportunity.
1192
01:21:49,948 --> 01:21:52,995
But he or she has to make
that opportunity themselves.
1193
01:21:57,782 --> 01:22:01,177
[machinery rumbling]
1194
01:22:02,874 --> 01:22:06,747
[workers chattering]
1195
01:22:09,707 --> 01:22:12,231
[Eaine] People ask me what I do,
I always say I'm a union plumber.
1196
01:22:12,275 --> 01:22:13,537
I'm proud to say that.
1197
01:22:15,191 --> 01:22:18,542
I feel like if you're not union,
you're selling yourself short.
1198
01:22:20,370 --> 01:22:26,898
Working a lot less hours,
bringing home a lot more, just focusing on my family.
1199
01:22:30,902 --> 01:22:33,905
[birds chirping]
1200
01:22:43,654 --> 01:22:46,570
[baby babbling]
1201
01:22:49,094 --> 01:22:52,271
I don't know. I mean, it's like
all the stuff you hear about,
1202
01:22:52,576 --> 01:22:56,536
you know, people will tell you,
oh, when you have a kid, you know, things change.
1203
01:22:56,580 --> 01:22:58,234
You have something to live for.
1204
01:22:58,277 --> 01:23:03,500
You have it, and it's
absolutely, it's indescribable.
1205
01:23:04,196 --> 01:23:05,806
Everything I had to go through,
1206
01:23:05,850 --> 01:23:07,460
I don't want him to have
to go through any of that.
1207
01:23:08,200 --> 01:23:12,248
I want him to just not have
any worries in life.
1208
01:23:12,988 --> 01:23:16,252
Oh yeah, you like that one?
1209
01:23:17,601 --> 01:23:19,081
Look at you.
1210
01:23:19,124 --> 01:23:20,647
[baby coos]
1211
01:23:22,606 --> 01:23:25,000
Replaced a few things
from the cabinet.
1212
01:23:26,131 --> 01:23:28,655
Replaced a lot of doors,
a lot of windows.
1213
01:23:29,526 --> 01:23:31,876
I'll show you guys the real fun
of the houses though.
1214
01:23:33,095 --> 01:23:35,358
So these were originally
chicken coops.
1215
01:23:36,446 --> 01:23:38,709
Put some siding on
and a new little roof.
1216
01:23:39,884 --> 01:23:42,321
This is the dream, they say.
1217
01:23:43,322 --> 01:23:45,542
[laughs]
They don't tell you about the cleanup.
1218
01:23:47,674 --> 01:23:51,809
A lot of work, still not over.
It does have a long way to go.
1219
01:23:51,852 --> 01:23:54,986
But goodness, one day at a time.
1220
01:24:00,513 --> 01:24:02,428
[Marty Walsh]
I don't know any family in this country
1221
01:24:02,472 --> 01:24:05,214
that can raise their
family on the minimum wage.
1222
01:24:05,779 --> 01:24:10,132
We have to get people paid
good wages and good benefits to build back the middle class.
1223
01:24:11,133 --> 01:24:13,222
And hopefully we can put aside
political differences.
1224
01:24:14,919 --> 01:24:18,053
We can argue
about social issues, but there should be no argument
1225
01:24:18,531 --> 01:24:21,317
about creating pathways
into the middle class for people in this country.
1226
01:24:28,237 --> 01:24:30,543
Oh, it smells so good in here.
1227
01:24:31,936 --> 01:24:34,504
It smells like new...
1228
01:24:35,374 --> 01:24:37,115
[Stephanie Porta]
When we do see successes,
1229
01:24:37,159 --> 01:24:39,596
it's through communities organizing.
1230
01:24:39,639 --> 01:24:41,685
And right now there's a lot
of organizing happening
1231
01:24:41,728 --> 01:24:45,210
across the state of Florida for
access to affordable housing.
1232
01:24:46,646 --> 01:24:49,954
We're trying
to build and support
1233
01:24:49,997 --> 01:24:52,652
and connect people from all
across the state of Florida
1234
01:24:52,957 --> 01:24:55,002
who really just can't
afford to live here.
1235
01:24:56,569 --> 01:25:00,225
In this last year
our renters across the state have worked together
1236
01:25:00,269 --> 01:25:03,359
with legislators to introduce
the Renters Bill of Rights.
1237
01:25:03,402 --> 01:25:05,622
Why does he look
like he just got kidnapped?
1238
01:25:05,665 --> 01:25:07,406
[Stephanie Porta]
It's not enough just to elect a legislator
1239
01:25:07,450 --> 01:25:09,887
and send them off
to do what you've asked for.
1240
01:25:11,236 --> 01:25:14,674
We need people
who are directly impacted to help write those laws.
1241
01:25:15,110 --> 01:25:18,504
We need everybody to join
a grassroots organization now,
1242
01:25:19,244 --> 01:25:23,248
use that community building
to build power for our people.
1243
01:25:23,509 --> 01:25:25,468
[Ana] Go see your room!
1244
01:25:26,643 --> 01:25:31,517
Oh my God, oh my God!
God, it's incredible.
1245
01:25:31,561 --> 01:25:34,085
Oh my God,
I have lost them both.
1246
01:25:36,305 --> 01:25:41,614
I've lost them both,
they're never gonna come out of their rooms.
1247
01:25:44,661 --> 01:25:46,271
[Ana] I'm going to read you
the email, okay?
1248
01:25:47,054 --> 01:25:48,534
"National Rally Day.
1249
01:25:48,882 --> 01:25:52,016
Hi, Anna. Again, I am so happy
to know that you've agreed
1250
01:25:52,059 --> 01:25:55,759
to join this fight
and be the face of our organization
1251
01:25:55,802 --> 01:25:57,413
and for the state of Florida."
1252
01:25:57,717 --> 01:26:01,025
When I read that, my heart
went to my stomach.
1253
01:26:02,896 --> 01:26:05,160
They want me to speak
at the rally
1254
01:26:05,421 --> 01:26:06,900
with Organize Florida?
1255
01:26:07,858 --> 01:26:12,079
Oh God,
I'm really nervous about that.
1256
01:26:15,344 --> 01:26:18,085
I honestly wasn't trying
to be the face of anything.
1257
01:26:18,564 --> 01:26:20,871
I just, I just wanted
my apartment fixed.
1258
01:26:20,914 --> 01:26:22,568
That's really all I wanted.
1259
01:26:23,134 --> 01:26:27,138
Workers unite! Workers unite!
1260
01:26:27,486 --> 01:26:28,922
Workers unite!
1261
01:26:28,966 --> 01:26:31,447
[crowd chanting]
1262
01:26:34,450 --> 01:26:39,063
[female speaker] We built the
whole thing, and we can shut the shit down too.
1263
01:26:39,846 --> 01:26:42,936
That'd be you,
the working class.
1264
01:26:42,980 --> 01:26:44,938
[man]
Where's my union leadership?
1265
01:26:50,814 --> 01:26:54,339
All right now, we are here.
1266
01:26:54,905 --> 01:26:57,037
One year ago, we started this.
1267
01:26:57,081 --> 01:26:59,388
We all know
what happened in Alabama.
1268
01:26:59,431 --> 01:27:01,520
Don't take it as a loss.
1269
01:27:01,564 --> 01:27:07,439
We know Amazon spent $25 million
to stop that warehouse from unionizing.
1270
01:27:08,005 --> 01:27:09,180
But let me tell you this.
1271
01:27:10,790 --> 01:27:12,401
We are beginning our efforts
in Staten Island.
1272
01:27:13,532 --> 01:27:15,926
There you go, sign up there,
then grab some food.
1273
01:27:16,492 --> 01:27:18,711
[woman]
1274
01:27:20,147 --> 01:27:21,845
[newscaster]
In the vote to unionize,
1275
01:27:21,888 --> 01:27:24,978
national labor officials
say Amazon violated labor laws.
1276
01:27:25,588 --> 01:27:28,243
Amazon workers
in Alabama get a do-over.
1277
01:27:30,332 --> 01:27:32,986
[April Sims] The labor movement
wasn't born in times of comfort.
1278
01:27:33,030 --> 01:27:36,860
We were born
when income inequality was at an all-time high,
1279
01:27:36,903 --> 01:27:39,863
when work was precarious,
when times were uncertain.
1280
01:27:39,906 --> 01:27:42,300
At various points
in our history as Americans,
1281
01:27:42,344 --> 01:27:45,738
we've had to reclaim
our democracy and fight back
1282
01:27:45,782 --> 01:27:49,176
the forces of corporate
concentration and capital
1283
01:27:49,220 --> 01:27:51,135
being in a few hands.
1284
01:27:51,178 --> 01:27:54,269
And we're at a point where we're
going to have to fight it again.
1285
01:27:54,312 --> 01:27:56,662
But the payoff is huge.
It means getting our country back.
1286
01:27:57,097 --> 01:27:59,752
It means getting
our shared prosperity back.
1287
01:28:00,144 --> 01:28:03,930
And it offers us the opportunity
really, to create true inclusive democracy.
1288
01:28:04,931 --> 01:28:08,500
Amazon workers on Staten Island
are voting to decide if they want to form a union.
1289
01:28:08,544 --> 01:28:11,851
If the efforts succeed, it would
be the first time Amazon
1290
01:28:11,895 --> 01:28:14,506
has had a union
since it began 27 years ago.
1291
01:28:16,508 --> 01:28:18,902
The voting wrapping up
on Wednesday.
1292
01:28:18,945 --> 01:28:22,471
Now, employees are waiting
on results from the National Labor Relations Board
1293
01:28:22,514 --> 01:28:27,084
in a decision
that could affect the lives of thousands of Amazon workers.
1294
01:28:32,394 --> 01:28:35,048
But you know Amazon's
pulling the same tactics that they did in Bessemer.
1295
01:28:35,092 --> 01:28:37,616
The same
union-busting firm that was in Bessemer
1296
01:28:37,660 --> 01:28:40,097
is up here in Staten Island.
1297
01:28:40,445 --> 01:28:43,622
Now Chris, your campaign
has had a lot of false starts.
1298
01:28:43,666 --> 01:28:46,146
Is that, were you at all
that a harder,
1299
01:28:46,190 --> 01:28:48,758
more aggressive approach
might be taken by the company?
1300
01:28:49,411 --> 01:28:50,803
I don't see
how much more they can go.
1301
01:28:51,674 --> 01:28:53,328
Yo, we gotta go.
1302
01:28:55,504 --> 01:28:56,418
[Chris] I don't know
what's going to happen when the count is over.
1303
01:29:02,293 --> 01:29:04,469
The people in power
are not worried
1304
01:29:04,904 --> 01:29:09,866
about what happens
when housing becomes unaffordable for the masses.
1305
01:29:11,824 --> 01:29:16,351
They are not worried
about people not being able to feed their kids.
1306
01:29:16,394 --> 01:29:19,484
They are not worried
about the future generations.
1307
01:29:21,094 --> 01:29:25,272
They will use
every tactic to divide us and pit us against each other,
1308
01:29:26,448 --> 01:29:29,755
because they know that's the way
that they stay in power.
1309
01:29:31,409 --> 01:29:34,194
You know, people talk about
how there's this polarization.
1310
01:29:34,238 --> 01:29:36,458
Yeah, in some cases,
on some issues.
1311
01:29:36,501 --> 01:29:41,245
But on economic issues, Americans
are incredibly aligned.
1312
01:29:41,811 --> 01:29:43,595
[crowd cheering]
1313
01:29:43,639 --> 01:29:45,989
[man]
Do you hear that Blackrock?
1314
01:29:46,032 --> 01:29:48,557
Give us a fair contract,
1315
01:29:48,600 --> 01:29:51,386
and we'll go back to work
where we should be.
1316
01:29:53,300 --> 01:29:57,870
[Nick Hanauer]
The most important thing for American citizens to do
1317
01:29:57,914 --> 01:30:01,874
is to forcefully demand
that both Republicans
1318
01:30:01,918 --> 01:30:07,097
and Democrats
deliver a good life to every citizen
1319
01:30:07,140 --> 01:30:10,361
who is willing to work hard
and play by the rules.
1320
01:30:10,622 --> 01:30:11,928
Full stop.
1321
01:30:14,409 --> 01:30:16,672
And if the political leaders
won't deliver on that, then they should kick them out
1322
01:30:16,715 --> 01:30:18,369
and find others that do.
1323
01:30:19,370 --> 01:30:21,198
[Janet Gornick] So let's
remember that in this country
1324
01:30:21,241 --> 01:30:24,462
we have the opportunity to vote,
at least for now.
1325
01:30:25,507 --> 01:30:29,946
I think this is a time for
people to think really carefully about who they're voting for,
1326
01:30:30,207 --> 01:30:33,515
and who will support the kind of
progressive social change that this country
1327
01:30:33,558 --> 01:30:36,431
has so dramatically needed
for the last several decades.
1328
01:30:42,828 --> 01:30:45,527
[opening bell dinging]
1329
01:30:45,570 --> 01:30:49,139
[Kurt Andersen] I am worried
about us becoming a country with shameless oligarchy
1330
01:30:49,182 --> 01:30:55,406
in gated communities
that don't give a shit about the peasants beyond the gates.
1331
01:31:03,196 --> 01:31:05,677
And you know, the people
with pitchforks and torches,
1332
01:31:05,721 --> 01:31:09,115
they're going to come
and get them unless we make this a fairer deal.
1333
01:31:11,074 --> 01:31:15,208
The deck has been so stacked
that proposing to put it back
1334
01:31:15,252 --> 01:31:18,951
into some kind of proper, fair,
balance looks kind of radical.
1335
01:31:20,649 --> 01:31:23,869
But when you take away
the boogeyman of socialism,
1336
01:31:24,130 --> 01:31:29,135
this radical model is the way
things were when I was young.
1337
01:31:29,179 --> 01:31:31,137
You know, which isn't
that long ago.
1338
01:31:31,703 --> 01:31:34,140
This is the challenge
of our time.
1339
01:31:34,793 --> 01:31:40,364
The next step is coming together
around the idea that inequality is an existential threat.
1340
01:31:42,932 --> 01:31:45,456
[dramatic music playing]
1341
01:31:57,294 --> 01:32:00,471
[chattering]
1342
01:32:04,780 --> 01:32:06,738
Yeah! Well done!
1343
01:32:07,217 --> 01:32:08,523
Here, toss me one.
1344
01:32:10,220 --> 01:32:12,788
[Jeff Bezos] I want to thank
every Amazon employee
1345
01:32:12,831 --> 01:32:14,703
because you guys
paid for all this.
1346
01:32:15,138 --> 01:32:18,576
So seriously,
for every Amazon employee,
1347
01:32:18,620 --> 01:32:21,013
thank you from the bottom
of my heart very much.
1348
01:32:22,711 --> 01:32:24,016
[Nick Hanauer] Fuck the rich.
1349
01:32:26,105 --> 01:32:31,371
In a democracy,
you don't need people like me and my pals on Wall Street
1350
01:32:31,415 --> 01:32:32,895
to agree with you
1351
01:32:33,199 --> 01:32:35,506
that taxes on rich people
should be higher.
1352
01:32:36,159 --> 01:32:38,509
[J. D. Scholten]
When are we going to step up and say, "You know what?
1353
01:32:38,553 --> 01:32:41,033
enough is enough?"
When is this government going to get back
1354
01:32:41,077 --> 01:32:43,209
of the people,
by the people, for the people?
1355
01:32:43,253 --> 01:32:45,342
Now is the time
and we will live.
1356
01:32:45,385 --> 01:32:47,649
This is our moment y'all.
1357
01:32:48,693 --> 01:32:50,260
[Danica Roem] You're well
qualified for office.
1358
01:32:52,044 --> 01:32:54,525
Bring those ideas to the table
because this is your America, too.
1359
01:32:54,569 --> 01:32:58,964
I cannot wait
to get to Congress and cause problems.
1360
01:32:59,008 --> 01:33:01,750
[crowd chanting]
1361
01:33:01,793 --> 01:33:06,232
It just takes a worker
in one of these plants to get organized and suggest
1362
01:33:06,276 --> 01:33:08,495
that they get the signatures
required to trigger a vote.
1363
01:33:08,539 --> 01:33:10,541
We've got details,
just a second, we've got details.
1364
01:33:10,585 --> 01:33:14,327
The election at Amazon's
JFK8 Fulfillment Center
1365
01:33:14,371 --> 01:33:17,200
in Staten Island wasn't close
according to the reporting I'm reading here.
1366
01:33:17,243 --> 01:33:19,376
[Chris]
1367
01:33:20,377 --> 01:33:22,988
[crowd cheering]
1368
01:33:25,687 --> 01:33:29,995
[crowd chanting]
1369
01:33:30,039 --> 01:33:32,650
[reporter] An unaffiliated,
totally grassroots campaign
1370
01:33:32,694 --> 01:33:37,568
organized the first ever union
in an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York.
1371
01:33:37,612 --> 01:33:41,441
It may be one of the biggest
wins for organized labor in a generation.
1372
01:33:41,485 --> 01:33:44,793
[man] It really
marks a milestone in American labor history.
1373
01:33:45,750 --> 01:33:51,582
[reporting
in various foreign languages]
1374
01:33:51,626 --> 01:33:53,628
We got the tally right here!
1375
01:33:57,980 --> 01:33:59,634
[Chris]
We beat them fair and square.
1376
01:33:59,677 --> 01:34:01,940
I'll pop it for y'all.
1377
01:34:01,984 --> 01:34:05,988
That means that we are
the first official union for Amazon in American history.
1378
01:34:07,380 --> 01:34:12,255
Started off with two tables,
two chairs in a tent and that's it.
1379
01:34:12,777 --> 01:34:14,083
Unionized.
1380
01:34:14,126 --> 01:34:16,041
Reach out to us, we'll help you.
1381
01:34:18,565 --> 01:34:22,700
[reporter]
The so-called year of the worker presses on into 2022.
1382
01:34:22,744 --> 01:34:25,398
Americans' approval of unions
is near record highs.
1383
01:34:25,442 --> 01:34:29,315
[male reporter]
Over 140 Starbucks stores have filed for a union election.
1384
01:34:29,359 --> 01:34:33,493
[female reporter]
The longest nurses strike in state history may be over.
1385
01:34:33,537 --> 01:34:36,018
We're looking
at the future of work here at the Department of Labor.
1386
01:34:36,061 --> 01:34:38,281
And when I say the future,
we're talking about tomorrow.
1387
01:34:40,196 --> 01:34:42,285
[Janet Gornick] If you've
ever in your entire life
1388
01:34:42,328 --> 01:34:44,330
thought that you wanted to get
involved with an organization,
1389
01:34:44,374 --> 01:34:47,986
support a political cause,
join a march, this is the time.
1390
01:34:48,030 --> 01:34:51,729
And as Martin Luther King said,
"You don't have to see the whole staircase.
1391
01:34:52,643 --> 01:34:54,123
Just take the first step."
1392
01:34:57,517 --> 01:35:01,652
[Olga Miranda]
Don't stand on the sidelines, it's time to rise.
1393
01:35:02,566 --> 01:35:05,264
It's really time
to rise and fight.
1394
01:35:05,308 --> 01:35:10,530
[woman] Jobs, justice, peace.
Let us not have to do this again for our children.
1395
01:35:10,574 --> 01:35:12,750
[Mya Middleton]
We are the voice for change,
1396
01:35:12,794 --> 01:35:15,927
we are the pieces to fix
what America has fallen short on.
1397
01:35:15,971 --> 01:35:17,189
Make it happen!
1398
01:35:17,233 --> 01:35:19,104
[crowd cheering]
1399
01:35:30,725 --> 01:35:34,859
[upbeat rock music playing]
1400
01:35:53,704 --> 01:35:57,969
[upbeat rock music playing]
1401
01:36:13,419 --> 01:36:16,074
♪ I use the change
From my kitchen drawer ♪
1402
01:36:18,773 --> 01:36:21,906
♪ To buy an off-brand soda
From the corner store ♪
1403
01:36:24,822 --> 01:36:27,433
♪ Well, I've been
Pinching every dime ♪
1404
01:36:30,480 --> 01:36:33,091
♪ I squeeze so hard
That it buys me time ♪
1405
01:36:35,485 --> 01:36:38,618
♪ I'm afraid
To check the mailbox ♪
1406
01:36:41,752 --> 01:36:44,755
♪ Between the bills
Collectors hide ♪
1407
01:36:47,149 --> 01:36:49,934
♪ Of promises and giveaways
1408
01:36:53,155 --> 01:36:55,766
♪ They tease me
With their credit lines ♪
1409
01:37:03,208 --> 01:37:07,865
♪ I'm preapproved, pre-denied
1410
01:37:08,779 --> 01:37:13,349
♪ I'm preapproved, pre-denied
1411
01:37:14,393 --> 01:37:22,706
♪ I'm preapproved, pre-denied
1412
01:37:27,015 --> 01:37:30,148
Just how stupid
do you think I am?