‘Economic anxiety is suffocating for people’: Why this young mayor championed a radical cash giveaway

‘Economic anxiety is suffocating for people’: Why this young mayor championed a radical cash giveaway

Michael Tubbs, the mayor of Stockton, California, first learned of the concept of guaranteed income when he read Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1967 book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? while in college at Stanford. “It was interesting to me as someone who grew up in church, a student of Dr. King, I thought it was interesting that I’ve never heard this part of his legacy. Even when I studied the Poor People’s Campaign. He devoted pages to it in his book. And he gave a speech at Stanford about it. What happened to this? I […]

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