Economic anxiety is suffocating for people : Why this young mayor championed a radical cash giveaway

Get the Full StorySorry, Andrew Yang: Universal basic income doesn t have to be a response to a dystopian future it can be a solution to present needs.

Michael Tubbs, the mayor of Stockton, California, first learned of the concept of guaranteed income when he read Dr. Martin Luther King s 1967 book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? while in college at Stanford. It was interesting to me as someone who grew up in church, a student of Dr. King, I thought it was interesting that I ve never heard this part of his legacy. Even when I studied the Poor People s Campaign. He devoted pages to it in his book. And he gave a speech at Stanford about it. What happened to this? I was a college freshman or sophomore, and I remember saying that it d be cool one day to at least be part of the conversation about where do we go from here? What happened to this idea? Let s test it. I had no idea that just seven years later I would actually be testing it. Read Full Story

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