Stockton, California, is conducting the first U.S. pilot study of universal basic income. Here's what a basic-income policy looks like for real people. blissbroyard reports
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Less than two years later, this past February, the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration gave 130 individuals, randomly selected from neighborhoods with a median household income at or below Stockton’s $46,033, their first monthly payment of $500, no strings attached.
His mother and his aunt had the chance to get him out using their father’s military pension — the very first form of public assistance in the U.S., established in 1792 for disabled veterans of the Revolutionary War. They put Tubbs, his brother, and his cousins into a private elementary school, which set him on an alternate trajectory that eventually landed him at Stanford University. While there, Tubbs secured internships at Google and the White House.
After SEED was announced, conservative commentators ridiculed the plan. “Mayor of bankrupt city will give free money to the poor,” read one tweet from Chuck Woolery, the conservative podcaster. Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin shared an article about the program with the comment “You’ve got to be kidding!” Tubbs, a master of the clapback, tweeted in reply, “Actually modeled after the Alaska Permanent Fund.
“It was very surreal,” she says. We’re talking in the SEED office downtown, where she has come after work to fill out the paperwork to get the debit card on which she’ll begin receiving her monthly disbursements. She has never met any of the staff before; they’ve communicated only by text, with the last message instructing her to come to this address. Her husband dropped her off, and she told him to note the building number “if anything happens to me,” she says.
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