UBI trials of $500/month are coming across in the form of stimuilus checks?

Missouri:

California:

Alaska:

What to make of all this? Alaska already has the Permanent Fund. This is something else. It’s nowhere near “universal”, but seems to be in the form of a lottery.

Is this part of the Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, or something else? That movement also resulted in UBI pilots, but not a single city was able to expand it to be universal. That’s why they called it “guaranteed” instead: