Child tax credit alert!! The poorest children (on welfare) will not be covered unless you contact the feds and your governors to set up a system for covering them automatically. As it is you have to file tax returns to get it. Most welfare mothers don't: no income to report.

I’ve noticed a lot of praise for the impending child tax credit. Does anyone know if there’s a hold harmless clause that prevents states from taking the money away from welfare recipients if they actually get it?

Women are the backbone of our society and economy. Join us tonight with @RashidaTlaib @azelleke @SatyaForMadison @MayorCarter @PassiSonya and @TFuniciello as they discuss women & guaranteed income. RSVP for film: https://t.co/J58XkNE2FU RSVP for panel: https://t.co/5VlUmJrstD

20 years ago, we fought to make the Child Tax Credit fully refundable for the poorest families. Thanks to last ditch efforts by Rep. Rosa DeLauro et al. to get it into the covid bill it may be done. If States can, they'll take it away. We'll see. See Tyranny of Kindness for info

Sure enough, there's lots of $$ in the covid bill for food banks to distribute food-like goods like fan favorite, diet soda. Tho expect more actual foods while the media is watching. When there are only persistently poor people left they'll revert to form.

The only people I know of who executed direct actions on Guaranteed Income were welfare mothers. Alone we were like the tree falling in the dark. Talk can be good, but like they say, it is also cheap. Think-organize-act. It's your turn.

Correction: it's not necessary...

It's necessary to re-invent the wheel. Guaranteed [basic] income experiments went on throughout the 1960's and 70s. Even at considerably higher payment levels they showed the same things. For that matter, studies of lottery winners did too. Action is the only real path left.

Or ask me why I was distressed to see Prez. Biden praising a distribution site in Texas, as if stores had no food.

Just realized I could ask you all to say no to the expansion of secondary "food" (tax giveaways to agribusiness) market. Demand income assistance to the poorest families to use grocery stores. See Tyranny of Kindness if you don't understand.

Thanks, @TFuniciello. You were the best boss I ever had. You helped me understand what I was upset about. I'm lucky to have worked with you #UBI

Beware of new poor vs old poor duplicity: we feel awful about newly poor folks having to wait in long lines for food boxes but forget lots of people always do it. In keeping, most of the "benefits" of the covid bill won't go to welfare families. NO stimulus checks for them, yet.

"Romney’s [Child UBI] plan is generous. The Democrats’ plan is even more so. But Romney’s plan has one edge: It simplifies things for the people it’s supposed to benefit. It’s a feature that Democrats should really pay attention to — and, ideally, steal." https://t.co/TnaM9fC8Kz

My book, Tyranny of Kindness, has been republished with photos of the times and an afterward which among other things addresses a gap in the thinking about "welfare reform" and Basic Income that I have not previously published. Here's the linc: https://t.co/tvefRQukmZ

If we set out to redefine the method of distribution in a money economy shouldn’t we also look to compensate (pun intended) for the absence of income that attaches to caring work, done mostly by women? Make a higher basic income for primary caregivers so they don’t lose forever.

All production and all wealth emanates from the creation of people. Women do that. Worldwide, they also do the vast majority of essential caring work. For this they get nothing. If they become single mothers for whatever reason and need welfare, oh you know...

Thanks Yang Gang for the fun discussion of my book and your thoughtful inputs.