Stockton, California Mayor Michael Tubbs at a League of Women Voters event in 2009. (Unmodified Creative Commons photo by the League of Women Voters of California. http://bit.ly/2iDzpbc) Stockton, California, a city of 300,000 people located about 80 miles east of San Francisco, has become the first city in America to announce plans for a Universal Basic Income program.
Universal Basic Income, or UBI, is a social welfare program that allows a government to unconditionally ensures a sum of money to its citizens on a regular basis.
Proponents argue a UBI can aid in lifting people out of poverty and raising low […]
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