A basic income of 1200 euros tested in Germany

A basic income of 1200 euros tested in Germany

Receive 1200 euros (about 1765 $ CAN) per month, unconditionally, for 3 years: 122 people, drawn at random from some two million volunteers, will benefit in Germany from this experiment aimed at promoting basic income.

The payments are financed by donations from 181,000 contributors and the project, presented on Tuesday, will be scientifically evaluated as part of a long-term study.

“Over the next three years, we want to empirically investigate whether and how the unconditional and regular payment of a sum of money that covers more than the subsistence level has an effect on the behavior of people,” explained Jürgen […]

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