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The fine folks at the CBC bring us the following report:
Participants in Ontario's prematurely cancelled basic income pilot project were happier, healthier and continued working even though they were receiving money with no-strings attached.
That's according to a new report titled Southern Ontario's Basic Income Experience, which was compiled by researchers at McMaster and Ryerson University, in partnership with the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction.
The report shows nearly three-quarters of respondents who were working when the pilot project began kept at it despite receiving basic income.
That finding appears to contradict the criticism some levelled at the project, saying it would sap people's motivation to stay in the workforce or seek employment.
That's an interesting way of looking at it. An alternative viewpoint could be that over a quarter of the people who were working before the UBI trial stopped working. Unclear are the benefits that resulted from their new spare time — such as providing support to an ailing family member.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 11 2020, @02:32PM (1 child)
Maybe I read TMB's comment wrong. I read it as getting "a little help", not as "hire a caretaker". I can easily see having an older girl, or even a young woman, high school or college age, to help out for as little as an hour, or as much as 6 or 8 hours, maybe one evening per week, or as much as 7 days a week. It doesn't need to be a professional, at all. No real training required. Almost any girl in her teens can master relations with a slower child. The same girl can probably master helping to prepare dinner, and then doing the dishes. Maybe it would take three such persons - Betty can work Mondays and Thursdays, Trish would love to have a job on Wednesdays, and Sherry is available almost anytime, just let her know a day ahead.
Something like that would give you a lot of flexibility. One night, the hired girl cooks dinner and cleans up, and goes home. Next night, no girls. The third night, the hired girl plays with and/or keeps an eye on the child, leaving you free to tend to all the chores that have piled up.
Of course, scheduling may be a bigger headache than some people can cope with. On the other hand, there are people who live for that kind of challenge.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:33AM
If there's a nursing school in the area -- sometimes student nurses can get extra credit for being home volunteers/paid help. That's an incentive for them to be reliable, and turnover doesn't matter so long as the school maintains the program.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.