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Los Angeles Takes an Oprah Approach to Guaranteed Incomes Apr 30 2021, 11:07 PM April 30 2021, 6:13 PM April 30 2021, 11:07 PM (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Los Angeles understands publicity and trendiness. Its leading industries depend on grabbing attention and conjuring desire. Its culture celebrates storytelling. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Los Angeles understands publicity and trendiness. Its leading industries depend on grabbing attention and conjuring desire. Its culture celebrates storytelling. So it’s fitting that in his recent State of the City address, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti anno...

Bryan Woolston/Reuters Natalie Foster is the cofounder of the Economic Security Project, a network dedicated to advancing a guaranteed income in America. She says in the wake of COVID-19, economic resilience can be part of our reality through guaranteed income. Guaranteed income is a robust response to so many contradictions. We see the benefits of divorcing work from worth playing out in Stockton, California. Mayor Michael Tubbs, the first Black mayor elected to office at the ripe age of  26, is running a guaranteed income pilot. He makes the case that poverty ...

The city that pays you $500 per month to live there A trial project that offers a guaranteed income has produced some groundbreaking results as support for monthly cash payments builds 13 March 2021 • 12:00pm Stockton, in California, suffered more foreclosures during the subprime crisis than any other US city and was declared bankrupt in 2012 Credit: Kim White/Telegraph The city of Stockton in California is a little more than an hour’s drive from the gleaming Silicon Valley headquarters of Google, Apple and Facebook, but it feels light years away.  Its heyday was arguably the mid 19th ce...

Parents can receive up to $300 per child each month from July to December, no strings attached. It's a guaranteed income for families.

The Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration – SEED – was not a one-shot-and-done program.  Based on the methodological work and positive results in Stockton, 10 other guaranteed income pilots are working throughout the country while increasing national conversation, leading the way towards a more evidence-based legislation.  In conversations with The Record, former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs, Dr. Stacia West and Dr. Amy Castro Baker – SEED program leaders – further discussed their results and what is developing across the nation.   “The city should be inc...