Stockton, a city of 300,000 located in California's Central Valley, has become the first city in the United States to launch a universal basic income experiment. With support from the Economic Security Project (ESP), a basic income advocacy group co-led by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, Stockton is starting a trial program known as Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED) to test how basic income may impact city residents and the local economy. "I can see the radicalness, but I'm...
from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/stockton-california-is-launching-the-first-basic-income-experiment-in-the-us
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