A final study on Stockton’s famous experiment giving low-income residents unconditional cash found the money improved some recipients’ mental health and financial stability – but only during “normative” economic conditions.
on the first year of the Stockton experiment showed the group receiving payments had increased its rate of full-time employment, as some recipients used the money to complete internships or consolidate part-time shifts and gig work.Pandemic spending
from Stockton recipients’ debit cards shows that recipients on average spent more than a third of the funds on food. But during the first month of the pandemic, spending on food spiked to nearly half of the tracked funds.Michael Tubbs, Stockton’s former mayor “Those are activities that you can’t do when you’re experiencing poverty or when your income is going up and down each month,” she said.Gregory Gauthier, a 34-year-old recipient in Stockton, said the money helped keep his family afloat through two unexpected losses in income during the pandemic — once while waiting for unemployment checks when his job furloughed him for three months and again when he was recovering from surgery for several weeks.
The pilot program randomly picked recipients from neighborhoods where the median household income was less than the city’s average — about $46,000 a year at the time. When Gauthier enrolled in the program in 2019, he was making $13 an hour at an auto dismantling business. He had four kids at the time; two lived with him, his mother and her husband.
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