California moves to be first state to fund universal basic income pilot efforts

by Jesse Bedayn, CalMatters July 16, 2021July 16, 2021

Veronica Vieyra, San Jose State University Class of 2021 graduate, poses for a photograph on campus in San Jose on July 3. Vieyra is one of 72 foster youth to receive payments of $1,000 a month in Santa Clara county’s first guaranteed basic income pilot program. (Photo by Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group via CalMatters)

UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME was championed by Martin Luther King Jr., promoted by Silicon Valley citizens as the “social vaccine for the 21st century” and endorsed by 2016 presidential candidate Andrew Yang, but it has never really caught on.

Now its time may have come.

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