Michael Tubbs, mayor of Stockton, Calif., speaks with the New America Foundation’s Anne-Marie Slaughter. Universal basic income has gained traction as a weapon in the war against poverty. The policy, often referred to as UBI, nearly made it all the way onto Hillary Clinton’s policy platform as she ramped up her 2016 presidential campaign. Clinton claimed in a 2017 interview with Vox that she “couldn’t make the numbers work” nationally, but Michael Tubbs, the 27-year-old mayor of Stockton, Calif., is starting smaller.
As Reuters reports in a story published Monday , Tubbs is planning to offer a group of city […]
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