Stockton, California to give $500 a month in basic income to some residents

> Stockton will give 100 residents $500 a month for 18 months, no strings attached.

This does not seem like enough people to really learn anything about the effectiveness of UBI, but who knows – maybe they’ll learn something and some folks will be better off at the end of the experiment. Really? I’d bet it will cover rent for some of the people in this study. It seems larger than other studies I’ve seen, but I haven’t been following all of them. As a college student, this would cover my rent fully and leave enough for a grocery-run. It […]

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