It was bound to come up sooner or later. A councilman in South San Francisco is proposing a pilot program that would provide low-income residents of that city with a monthly basic income.
The stipend, presumably with no strings attached, is in the talking stage right now. A key rationale would be to address financial hardships caused by the ongoing pandemic. It would be money above and beyond current emergency outlays provided, in the main, by the federal government.
Mark Nagales is serious about his proposal, dubbed, perhaps inaccurately, “universal basic income.” He floated the idea last week.There are very […]
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