By Macy Lu
DAVIS — Universal Basic Income (UBI), a government program that once only existed in faraway Nordic countries, will soon arrive in Yolo County. Spearheading the pilot project is the director of the Health and Human Services Agency in Yolo County, Nolan Sullivan, who predicts the program might become operational as early as July 2021.
With UBI, a government–in this case Yolo County–would offer all citizens of a given population a periodic payment with as few strings as possible. Its general goal is to buoy those in precarious situations above the poverty line while they try to get […]
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