Now it was the first American city in decades to take the buzzy idea for a basic income and bring it into the real world, as a potential remedy to the country’s growing inequality.
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Three years — and one pandemic — later, the Stockton experience offers lessons on the promises of the policy and its limitations. The idea of a universal basic income — that every citizen receives a regular, unconditional cash payment from the government — is gaining traction worldwide, including in the United States, where it is buoyed in part by the federal stimulus measures […]
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