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Coronavirus pandemic puts a spotlight on Stockton’s guaranteed income experiment — The Sacramento Observer

(CALMATTERS) - If there was ever a good time to convince people guaranteed income can make a difference, Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs figured it’d be in the middle of a pandemic that is taking a heavier toll in poor neighborhoods and among Black and Latinx communities. So Tubbs, whose city has been at the heart […]

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