Michael D. Tubbs

Tubbs was the mayor of Stockton, CA. The author of the memoir The Deeper the Roots, Tubbs currently serves as the Special Advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom for Economic Mobility and is the founder of End Poverty in California (EPIC)

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Escaping Poverty Like I Did Shouldn't Be the Exception

“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature’s laws wrong it learned to walk without having feet.”—Tupac Shakur, The Rose That Grew from Concrete.The rose that grew...

By Michael D. Tubbs

11 U.S. Mayors Advocate for Guaranteed Income

In 1967, against a backdrop of massive civil unrest, Dr. Martin Luther King wrote Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? and called for the immediate abolition of poverty. In the richest nation...

By Michael D. Tubbs , Chokwe Antar Lumumba , Melvin Carter , Ras J. Baraka , Aja Brown , Eric Garcetti , Adrian Perkins , Libby Schaaf , Stephen Benjamin , Keisha Lance Bottoms and Victoria R. Woodards
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