Food, clothes, utilities: How people are using their cash from the country’s biggest basic income pilot

Food, clothes, utilities: How people are using their cash from the country’s biggest basic income pilot

Late last year, Lorrine Paradela got a letter in the mail: she could receive a no-strings-attached gift of $500 a month for 18 months. Paradela, a single mother in Stockton, California, was skeptical that the offer was real. But as someone who works more than full-time and still struggles to make ends meet, she decided to participate, becoming one of 125 people living in Stockton to be part of the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration , a guaranteed income initiative pushed by the city’s young mayor, Michael Tubbs.

New data released today shows how recipients are using the money, which […]

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