An Experiment in Universal Basic Income
10/26/19 • 34 min
As Universal Basic Income becomes a talking point in the Democratic Primary race, one city has already started. Last February, the city of Stockton, California randomly selected 150 residents to receive five hundred dollars a month, as part of a universal basic income pilot program. Michael Tubbs, the mayor of Stockton, and Sukhi Samra, the director of the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration, discuss how the pilot has been going so far.
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As Universal Basic Income becomes a talking point in the Democratic Primary race, one city has already started. Last February, the city of Stockton, California randomly selected 150 residents to receive five hundred dollars a month, as part of a universal basic income pilot program. Michael Tubbs, the mayor of Stockton, and Sukhi Samra, the director of the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration, discuss how the pilot has been going so far.
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Deep Background with Noah Feldman - An Experiment in Universal Basic Income
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Pushkin from Pushkin Industries. This is Deep Background, the show where we explored the stories behind the stories in the news. I'm Noah Feldman. Last February, thirty five year old Thomas Vargas received an envelope in the mail. It held a debit card with five hundred dollars loaded onto it. I was shocked, kind of like thought it was not true or it was fake, but the money was real. Vargas had been randomly selected to take part in an eighteen mo
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