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Long Beach Is Launching A Universal Basic Income Experiment
Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia has announced plans to give money — no strings attached — to a select group of city residents.
The idea is to study the effects of a so-called “universal basic income,” a policy favored by some economists for tackling high poverty rates and pushed heavily during the Democratic Presidential primaries by Andrew Yang.
Read more on LAist.
Yesterday, the Long Beach City Council voted to support the UBI project.
Guests:
Robert Garcia, mayor of Long Beach; he tweets
Andrew Yang, 2020 presidential candidate and entrepreneur; he is the chair of the advisory board for Californians for Consumer Privacy, which advocates for the passage of Proposition 24; he tweets