Ben Simmons: Basic income could increase divorce, and that’s a good thing

Ben Simmons: Basic income could increase divorce, and that’s a good thing

Campaigner Ben Simmons explains how a basic income could heighten "romantic mobility"

IT IS widely reported that Richard Nixon was scared of implementing a basic income in the United States in 1969 by the increase in divorce rates in Seattle and Denver trial schemes.

This finding was later debunked when the evidence was re-analysed, but I think that we should be optimistic that if we were to implement a basic income today we would see something like it come to pass.The fact is that society’s more permissive attitude to ‘living in sin’ and the implementation of civil partnerships has […]

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