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    Nearly a century after Upton Sinclair’s campaign, is California really ready to end poverty?

    by Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times Feb 11, 2022 3 minutes

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nearly 90 years after activist writer Upton Sinclair launched the End Poverty in California campaign, an advisor to Gov. Gavin Newsom has released a similarly ambitious plan by the same name.

    In a report released this week, former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs, known for his effort to push universal basic income, laid out a sweeping proposal to create a “minimum wealth floor” and overhaul the state’s social safety net with the launch of a new nonprofit, End Poverty in California, or EPIC.

    The plan also calls for expansion of business and home loans, affordable housing, job

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