The Value Gap: ‘Every recession, there’s a massive bailout given to corporations and CEOs’: Stockton mayor Michael Tubbs says basic income payments can help bail out Americans

Michael Tubbs is the youngest elected mayor of a major U.S. city and the first Black mayor of Stockton, Calif. GOOGL,
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search of Stockton, Calif., a city located east of San Francisco, suggests that people also ask the following three questions:

1. “Is Stockton CA a dangerous city?”2. “Why is Stockton so bad?”3. “Is Stockton, California ghetto?”Those likely result from the city’s once record-high violent crime rate, which in 2018 was the highest among 70 California cities with 100,000 or more residents, according to a Federal Bureau of Investigation report .The city has also recorded record-high poverty rates: […]

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