A mother and son walk through one of the neighborhoods of Stockton where participants in the city’s universal basic income program live in Stockton, California, on February 7, 2020. It’s probably safe to say that a few years ago, most Americans weren’t familiar with the term universal basic income , commonly abbreviated as UBI. But more recently, as the idea has grown in popularity among the tech community, and with Andrew Yang’s presidential run putting it into the political spotlight , the idea of everybody in the country receiving a monthly check just for existing has begun to capture […]
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