And my contributions to your pbs station before viewers like you, tha you, thank you. Dr. Bregman is a historian and author who argues its time to rethink the add cal idea of universal basic income. Hes assembled multiple studies and Success Stories to make his case and even convinced more than 20 cities around the globe to start a basic inkim experiment. His book is titled utopia for realists how we can build the ideal world. Im honor to have you on this program. Thanks for having me. There are three basic components, one, universal income, 15hour workweek and open borders. Lets take them in that order. Tell me and tell the audience what universal basic income is. Very simple. It is a monthly amount thats enough to pay for your basic needs, food, shelt, he educational. Its completely conditional so no one tells us what to have you doll for it or with it. So everybody gets it whether uhrich or poor, everybody gets it. Bill gates gets it but also every beggar on the street. It goes all
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Lnchts Award Winning brauft leslie stall has had to be tough throughout her career but when her first granddaughter was born she was blind side by emotion. She has the New York Times best selling book becoming grandma, the joys and science of grandparenting out now in paper book and it would do me an honor to have her on this program. Youve never been on my show on this set. Im so heap to be here with you. My career wouldnt have been complete had you not made bun visit so thank you. Youre too lovely. Thank you. What a great reason for a visit. Let me just start with there are two or three things in here that ive learned from reading your text which has fascinated me. What. I did not know that of the humans there are only two animals who tloif become grandparents. Thats my favorite thing in the book too. And they. Whales and elephants. Whales and elephants. And us. And for years and throw poll gifts were trying t
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Lnchts Award Winning brauft leslie stall has had to be tough throughout her career but when her first granddaughter was born she was blind side by emotion. She has the New York Times best selling book becoming grandma, the joys and science of grandparenting out now in paper book and it would do me an honor to have her on this program. Youve never been on my show on this set. Im so heap to be here with you. My career wouldnt have been complete had you not made bun visit so thank you. Youre too lovely. Thank you. What a great reason for a visit. Let me just start with there are two or three things in here that ive learned from reading your text which has fascinated me. What. I did not know that of the humans there are only two animals who tloif become grandparents. Thats my favorite thing in the book too. And they. Whales and elephants. Whales and elephants. And us. And for years and throw poll gifts were trying t
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Amy goodman has been cover ing politics for 20 years now. Her newest book is now available in paperback. She joins us tonight from stanford, california. Good to have you back on the program. Its great to be with you. Are there still in fact movements that are changing america or are we up against something we havent seen the likes of ever . And if not ever, certainly in quite a while . Both. I think there are major movements that are changing this country still. In fact, our escalating, you look just at these three. The media played a lot of the first 100 days of donald trump, as we should have. The evaluation of what he has managed to do so far. What wasnt done as much is evaluating the movements, and theyve been quite astonishing, the day after President Trump was inaugurated. Three times the crowd for his inauguration came out. A lot was made of the fact that Donald Trumps inaugural crowd was smaller than pre
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Amy goodman has been cover ing politics for 20 years now. Her newest book is now available in paperback. She joins us tonight from stanford, california. Good to have you back on the program. Its great to be with you. Are there still in fact movements that are changing america or are we up against something we havent seen the likes of ever . And if not ever, certainly in quite a while . Both. I think there are major movements that are changing this country still. In fact, our escalating, you look just at these three. The media played a lot of the first 100 days of donald trump, as we should have. The evaluation of what he has managed to do so far. What wasnt done as much is evaluating the movements, and theyve been quite astonishing, the day after President Trump was inaugurated. Three times the crowd for his inauguration came out. A lot was made of the fact that Donald Trumps inaugural crowd was smaller than pre