Re:The promising results of Stockton’s basic income experiment
by notahacker on Thursday July 16, 2020 @06:59AM
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tbf since their targeting was low income neighbourhoods, one can assume the higher income neighbourhoods would have contributed some of the share.
A fair experiment would have at least stripped away all the other state funded benefits UBI supposedly replaces, but I guess 'UBI is good for the spending power of single-income couples but leaves the poorest people much worse off' wasn't the headline the advocacy group was shooting for...
A fair experiment would have at least stripped away all the other state funded benefits UBI supposedly replaces, but I guess 'UBI is good for the spending power of single-income couples but leaves the poorest people much worse off' wasn't the headline the advocacy group was shooting for...