A basic income–a periodic, unconditional cash payment–delivers with it numerous personal benefits to people who receive it. In Finland, a cash-transfer program reduced depression rates among recipients by around 37%. In Ontario, an unofficial analysis of a now-closed pilot found that 88% of people who received monthly payments felt less stressed, and 47% felt less marginalized–on top of having greater access to better food and housing.
These benefits are significant, and point to the ways that basic income can broadly improve individuals’ livelihoods. But it also, according to new research (not yet peer-reviewed) from Princeton University, could ease difficulties and […]
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