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In places where an UBI has been tried economic activity has gone up.
by CuriousSkeptic 8y ago
In places where an UBI has been tried economic activity has gone up.
- RussianCow 8y agoDo you have examples? The only trials I'm aware of (Canada and Finland) were not truly universal, and were done on a very small scale on a short time period, so it's hard to really gleam anything from them. I'm hoping Chicago ends up going through with their trial[0], because that will be a much more useful study. [0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/chicago-considering-trial-for-universal-basic-income-2018-7/ https://www.businessinsider.com/chicago-considering-trial-fo...
- CuriousSkeptic 8y agoThere’s one in Kenya https://basicincome.org/news/2017/03/us-kenya-new-study-published-results-basic-income-pilot-kenya/ https://basicincome.org/news/2017/03/us-kenya-new-study-publ... Also concluded ones in Namibia and in India i think