Low-Income Stockton Residents Praise City’s ‘Universal Basic Income’ Program
“Stockton has made resident Tomas Vargas a guarantee: The city will pay him $500 a month, for free, more or less no strings attached. It’s money that he’s received since February as part of Stockton’s ‘universal basic income’ program. Vargas, who lives with his fiancée and two children, was chosen at random to be a recipient, along with 125 other low-income families as part of a pilot program called Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration, or SEED.”