What happens when people are given $500 a month? A California city experiments with guaranteed income
In this ABCNews piece, Meghan Keneally highlights how those participating in the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration, a guaranteed basic income pilot, use the funds.
"'A lot of folks think that they know how lower- and moderate-income people spend money,' [Stacia] Martin-West said, but this data shows that they 'make smart and rational decisions like we all do.'"