‘It’s Basic’ for Michael Tubbs

‘It’s Basic’ for Michael Tubbs

Michael Tubbs Former mayor’s guaranteed income project now the subject of a documentary

By Sandra Varner

JA Guest Writer Michael Tubbs is well aware of the sobering statistics about American poverty. The former mayor of Stockton, CA, grew up poor and knew he needed to address it.Census numbers showing 37.9 million Americans living below the poverty line, of which 23.51 million are women, comes as no surprise to him.“It’s one thing to talk about poverty, but it’s another thing to have lived it,” Tubbs said during our recent interview. “I’ve been hungry. I’ve watched my mother struggle, […]

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