Stockton’s Economic Empowerment Demonstration: A Guaranteed Income Initiative

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Associated Program:
John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
Speakers:
Chris Hughes
Michael Tubbs

Chris Hughes '06
Co-chair of the Economic Security Project
Co-Founder of Facebook
Michael Tubbs
Mayor of Stockton, CA
Rema Hanna (Moderator)
Scientific Director, J-PAL Southeast Asia
Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies, Harvard Kennedy School of Government


Chris Hughes ’06, Co-chair of the Economic Security Project and Co-Founder of Facebook, and Michael Tubbs, Mayor of Stockton, CA joined moderator Rema Hanna for a discussion on Stockton’s guaranteed income initiative . The speakers addressed topics ranging from their motivations for enacting the guaranteed income initiative to the difference between guaranteed income and universal basic income to the logistics of enacting the initiative.