Colby Cosh: Can giving everyone free money reduce the stigma of a guaranteed income?

Colby Cosh: Can giving everyone free money reduce the stigma of a guaranteed income?

Not many people noticed — perhaps because it appeared in a sociology journal instead of the economics literature — but there has been another fresh scholarly spelunking in the data ruins left behind by Mincome, Manitoba’s ambitious 1970s experiment with a universal guaranteed basic income. Mincome is a Canadian event that was forgotten for decades, but it suddenly became retro-mesmerizing to the whole world a few years ago when the idea of a basic income returned to fashionability. It is the most extensive trial of a basic income that was ever performed — yet it turned out to be […]

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.