This is such a cool project. I hope it will work well for everybody and poverty will be abolished.
They are going to pay participants between $1,000 and $2,000 a month for 5 years.
https://mic.com/articles/144927/basic-income-in-california-100-oakland-residents-will-get-a-salary-just-for-being-alive#.P7bwioY0n