A Stockton city worker walks away from city hall in Stockton, Calif. Stockton, a Northern California city, gave several dozen families $500 a month for a year as part of a program to study the economic and social impacts of giving people a basic income. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File) Just six years ago, the idea of a city unconditionally giving its people money, with no strings attached, was unthinkable. The concept might have been popular among some anti-poverty activists and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who believed in some kind of supplemental income from the government, but hardly any leader made […]
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