Melvin Carter, the mayor of St. Paul , Minnesota, watched his city’s twin, Minneapolis, burn this spring. Sparked by the killing of George Floyd , the whole state ignited in protest and fury over his May 25 death and the treatment of Black people at the hands of police. Carter knew his city’s citizens were aggrieved not only by decades of mistreatment, but also by the entrenched poverty that accompanied it.
If there was ever a good time to convince people guaranteed income can make a difference, Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs figured it’d be in the middle of a […]
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