Coronavirus pandemic puts a spotlight on Stockton’s guaranteed income experiment

[ Article was originally posted on www.calmatters.org ]

by Laurence Du Sault ,

If there was ever a good time to convince people guaranteed income can make a difference, Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs figured it’d be in the middle of a pandemic that is taking a heavier toll in poor neighborhoods and among Black and Latinx communities. So Tubbs, whose city has been at the heart of one of the nation’s few experiments with free cash payments for more than a year, launched Mayors for Guaranteed Income last month to push for federal policy. So […]

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