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Even if your occupation isn't being replaced by a robot, determination is plentifulness of economical insecurity today, with galore radical conscionable 1 paycheck distant from disaster. To combat economical hardship, the City of Stockton, Calif., is launching a aviator programme to trial the benefits of a basal cosmopolitan income (BUI) - giving $500 a period to impoverished residents, nary strings attached. Lee Cowan hears from Mayor Michael Tubbs astir his effort, funded by the Economic Security Project, and talks with erstwhile Labor Secretary Robert Reich and University of California, Berkeley prof Laura Tyson astir the costs and benefits of "free" money. (This communicative primitively aired connected April 15, 2018)
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