Study participants will get $1,400 per month so researchers can see how guaranteed income affects people’s lives

Study participants will get $1,400 per month so researchers can see how guaranteed income affects people’s lives

How could life be different if everyone was provided a base salary from the government each month? That is the central question German researchers will be looking at over the next three years with a revolutionary study starting this week.

Known as the Basic Income Pilot Project , the study will look at 120 subjects who are given 1,200 Euros (about $1,400) each month for a total of three years. That group will be compared with another group of 1,380 people who will not receive monthly cash payments.

German researcher Jürgen Schupp, a professor of sociology at the Free University of […]

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