NPR’s Michel Martin speaks to Michael Tubbs, Mayor of Stockton, California, about his city’s experiment with a universal basic income.
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
What would you do with an extra $ 500 a month without any strings attached? Thanks to an experimental program in Stockton, California, we now have some answers. Since February, the city has been sending $ 500 worth of debit cards every month to 125 residents, all of whom earn less than Stockton’s median annual income of about $ 46,000.Stockton is the first city in the US to experiment with the universal basic income, and the idea has […]
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