Grocery store aisle by Oleg Magni via Pexels As two Wisconsin cities work to get guaranteed income pilot programs off the ground, the city that built the nation’s first experiment in the policy has found that no-strings-attached payments can improve people’s health, increase employment and reduce economic instability.
Stockton, California and its former Mayor Michael Tubbs began an experiment in a new kind of economic policy two years ago when it started giving a selected group of 125 residents $500 per month.
To be selected, recipients needed to be at least 18 years old and live in a neighborhood with a […]
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