Nearly $700K grant will aid SEED researchers

STOCKTON — A $680,000 grant has been awarded to two researchers as they evaluate the impact of the first city-led guaranteed income pilot program.

A duo of faculty researchers from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the University of Pennsylvania were given a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Evidence for Action grant. Stacia Martin-West is an assistant professor at UT’s College of Social Work and Amy Castro Baker is an assistant professor at the School of Social Policy and Practice at Penn.

The grant will go towards evaluating the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED) program, the first of its kind in the […]

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