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Many young people ask me why & how I started running for office from a restaurant, w/o any special connections or big money.

@knockdownmovie tells that story.

Due to COVID, Netflix is releasing the film for free along w/ educational toolkit & curriculum:
You can now watch the film for FREE distribution and access educational materials and teaching guides for middle school, high school, and higher ed.

Here is the film:
And here are the teaching guides, organizing toolkits, and educational resources to talk this through with your students and kids: knockdownthehouse.com/resources/
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One of the largest forms of theft in the US today is wage theft.
I experienced it first hand as a waitress.

A manager forced me to clock out before I was done finishing my work, & I couldn’t leave.

When I spoke up about it, my schedule was changed to late, unusual, poorly tipping hours for a week.

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What’s also wild is the arrogance of some of these folks saying it’s “wrong” or “ignorant” for me to question the term ‘Human Stock’ bc it’s used in academia.

Plenty of awful terms have widely used without reflection. Over time language evolves to reflect evolved understanding.
Gotta wonder how many of these US economic “experts” have been able to go their whole careers without ever having to take a course or study the history US racial wealth inequality. It’s no wonder so many act as though poverty is either deserved or a policy accident. It’s neither.
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Quite amused by the men in my mentions volunteering to explain my own joke to me
*DJ Khaled voice*: Another one
This is policy head for @BudgetHawks, btw. They lobby both parties for austerity policies in DC (aka cutting public safety nets when ppl need it most).

I call it out bc it matters when people who seek to influence policy are flippant + misogynistic towards members of Congress.
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