For Falaviena Palefau, being able to buy her 12-year-old daughter new shoes for her birthday was a present for both of them.
Normally, when the date rolled around, Palefau said she’d deflect her daughter’s birthday wishes, telling the girl they could ask her grandparents for money or save up for a while to get it.
But this time was different.The unemployed mom is one of 125 people getting $500 a month — no strings attached — in a privately-funded experimental guaranteed income program in Stockton, California, a city of more than 300,000, where 1-in-4 residents lives in poverty. Guaranteed income programs, […]
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