Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, right, talks with Michael Tubbs, founder of Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, at Griffith Observatory on April 19 after announcing plans to launch the country’s largest test of guaranteed income payments. Since President Johnson launched his War on Poverty in 1964, the percentage of Americans living in grinding poverty has plummeted. Despite a steady infusion of new programs, though, most of the gains in that fight came in the first decade . And while federal and state safety net programs have lifted millions of people out of poverty, roughly 1 in 10 Americans remain […]
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