Mayor Michael Tubbs on Why Stockton Is Giving Residents $500 a Month - a podcast by San Francisco Chronicle senior political writer Joe Garofoli

While presidential candidates like Andrew Yang muse about giving all citizens a universal basic income, Stockton is actually trying it. Since February, a pilot program there has been giving 130 Stockton residents $500 a month to use as they see fit. Mayor Michael Tubbs, who at 28 is one of the nation’s youngest big city mayors, explains how his own upbringing in poverty helps him see how the program could work -- and potentially go statewide.
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