In late August, Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs provided more details about the city’s plan to provide a guaranteed income for 100 families. Starting next month, there will be 1,000 letters sent to families living in neighborhoods at or below the city’s median income of around $46,000. These letters will invite the families to participate to […]

Apparently, even professionals in the San Francisco metro area can qualify as low-income due to the expensiveness of the area. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) annually assesses income limits for how much a person can make per year and still qualify for certain types of federal housing assistance. HUD’s fiscal 2018 […]

According to Reuters, Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs plans to combat poverty with a “no strings” guaranteed basic income of $500 a month for some of its residents. The plan will start in early 2019 and a select group of residents will be provided with a monthly stipend as part of a privately funded 18-month experiment […]

Last month, San Bernardino announced that it had officially exited bankruptcy after four years. This means that San Bernardino will have to start paying its creditors, but things will not be that easy. The once all-American middle class suburb at the end of the 1970’s entered into bankruptcy in 2012 after years of struggling to […]

The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released new income limits last month and it turns out that a family of four that has an annual income of $84,450 or less qualifies as low income in Orange County. Even a single person living alone and earning $58,450 or less a year qualifies […]

Gas prices are set to rise once again as refineries throughout the United States begin producing cleaner burning and more expensive spring and summer blend fuel – California government officials have imposed its own higher quality standard. Mark Glover, Sacramento Bee, writes” Across the nation, GasBuddy predicted that gasoline prices will rise between 35 and […]