A large crowd of people wait in line outside a food pantry at St. Bartholomew’s Roman Catholic Church in Elmhurst, Queens. In late October, Mayor Aja Brown of Compton, Calif., announced that the city will be launching a universal basic income (UBI) pilot program for 800 qualifying low-income residents later this year. Called the Compton Pledge, the program is funded entirely by private donations and will be the largest city-run UBI experiment in the nation in which recipients will receive monthly payments between $300 to $600 for a period of two years.
While UBI is not a new idea, more […]
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