A Stockton City employee leaves Stockton, California City Hall. Stockton, a town in Northern California, gave several dozen families $ 500 a month for a year as part of a program to study the economic and social effects of a basic income for people. (AP Photo / Ben Margot, File)
Six years ago, the idea of a city to give its citizens unconditional and unconditional money was unthinkable. The concept may have been popular with some anti-poverty activists and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who believed in some kind of extra income from the government, but few leaders made it a workable […]
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