Four years after Stockton conducted a nationally-watched experiment, giving 125 households $500 a month with no strings attached, dozens of programs throughout California are testing the idea of a guaranteed income. CalMatters identified more than 40 similar pilot programs that have run, are operating or are planning to launch around the state. They are sending […]
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California Moves to be First State to Fund Pilot Universal Basic Income
Universal basic income was championed by Martin Luther King Jr., promoted by Silicon Valley citizens as the “social vaccine for the 21st century” and endorsed by 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang, but it has never really caught on. Now its time may have come. On Thursday California lawmakers approved the nation’s first state-funded guaranteed income program. […]