Seattle gave low-income residents $500 a month no strings attached. Employment rates nearly doubled. - eviltoast
A guaranteed basic income program pilot in Seattle gave 102 low-income residents $500 monthly. Employment among the participants nearly doubled.
  • A Seattle basic income pilot gave low-income residents $500 a month, nearly doubling employment rates.
  • Some participants reported getting new housing, while others saw their employment incomes rise.
  • Basic income pilots nationwide have seen noteworthy success, despite conservative opposition.
  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    That’s why UBI needs to be combined with common sense price ceilings. When you do that, it WILL work as intended.

    I doubt this works without other laws and policies needing to go into effect beforehand

    Or just simultaneously. Here’s a snazzy name I had an LLM come up with for the bill name:

    FAIR-CARE: Fair Allocation of Income Resources - Common-sense Affordable Regulation for Everyone