With Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs Out, Will His ‘Guaranteed Income’ Experiment Stay?

Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs may have lost his bid for a second term in office, but many say the work he has set in motion will continue. When he was elected in 2016, Tubbs became the cityâs first African American mayor â and its youngest, at age 27. Since then, Tubbs has gained a national profile for testing the idea of a âguaranteed incomeâ in his own city, where he was also born and raised.

Known as the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration , or SEED, the project was meant to be a temporary proof of concept. 125 people were given […]

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