Judge orders St. Louis to stop guaranteed basic income payments

Judge orders St. Louis to stop guaranteed basic income payments

(The Center Square) – A judge ordered the city of St. Louis to indefinitely stop its guaranteed basic income program, possibly marking the first time a court granted an injunction to stop payments.

St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Joseph Whyte late Friday ordered St. Louis Comptroller Darlene Green, Treasurer Adam Layne and Mayor Tishaura Jones to immediately stop making any deposits to financial institutions for funding the project, except for administrative costs, and stop all payments to private individuals under the program.

Two weeks ago, Whyte granted a temporary restraining order to stop the payments for 15 days as part of […]

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