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

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

Hide caption Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs speaks during meeting of Big City Mayors, a coalition of mayors from California’s 13 largest cities focused on finding solutions to homelessness, at the California Captiol on March 9. [ANNE WERNIKOFF/FOR CALMATTERS] By Laurence du Sault, CalMatters

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 […]

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