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: 4, Informative) by pTamok on Wednesday March 11 2020, @08:00AM (3 children)
This is not meant as a snarky comment, simply informative.
You may not realise it, but that is actually written as chaise longue: it is French, and means 'long chair [wikipedia.org]'.
Similarly, you might mean (benthic/bottom) trawling [wikipedia.org] rather than trolling [wikipedia.org] as a variation of the phrase 'scraping the bottom of the barrel [wiktionary.org]'.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday March 11 2020, @12:55PM
It looked wrong to me, but it's what the little old lady called it in her quote.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Wednesday March 11 2020, @07:11PM (1 child)
+5 grammar nazi (in a good non-snarky way).
(Score: 1) by pTamok on Wednesday March 11 2020, @08:14PM
Thank you.