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posted by martyb on Wednesday March 11 2020, @01:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the Having-UBI-would-afford-more-time-to-spend-supporting-SoylentNews dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday March 12 2020, @12:40AM

    by Gaaark (41) on Thursday March 12 2020, @12:40AM (#969953) Journal

    You have that wrong: I've been supporting Sanders for a few years now (or Warren).

    Biden will be same-same and nothing will change.

    With my son being in the neo-natal unit for 2.5 months and almost dying and now my wife with a hysterectomy and leukemia...I'd be very bankrupt. Maybe divorced. Could be dead.
    Glad ......SO glad we live in Canada.

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