City of Stockton. LPS.1 The city of Stockton is committing to an experiment with a Universal Basic Income (UBI) in 2018: The city will supplement a few low-income Stockton families’ budgets to the tune of $500/month and then monitor the results.
Announced in October of last year , the Stockton pilot will run for 12-18 months. The project is largely the ward of Stockton’s 27-year-old mayor Michael Tubbs who frames the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration [SEED] program as a potential cure for a shooting gallery of city problems.
Per SEED: When the rug is yanked out from underneath families, they find […]
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