{"id":5786,"date":"2020-07-18T17:06:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T21:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=5786"},"modified":"2020-07-18T17:10:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T21:10:05","slug":"canadas-forgotten-universal-basic-income-experiment-bbc-worklife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=5786","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s forgotten universal basic income experiment &#8211; BBC Worklife"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cAs a health economist, you become aware very quickly that we use the healthcare system to treat the consequences of poverty, and we do it in an inefficient and expensive way,\u201d she says. \u201cWe wait until people live horrible lives for many years, get sick as a consequence, and then we go in all guns blazing to make things better.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/worklife\/article\/20200624-canadas-forgotten-universal-basic-income-experiment\">Canada\u2019s forgotten universal basic income experiment &#8211; BBC Worklife<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>TL;DR: 4 year trial of UBI in Dauphin, MB.\u00a0 One interesting note: employment did not change over the 4-year period.\u00a0 But can it work nationwide?<\/p>\n<p>The professor&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utpjournals.press\/doi\/full\/10.3138\/cpp.37.3.283\">study<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Similar program in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/worklife\/article\/20180316-the-free-money-programme-that-turns-lives-around\">Finland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs a health economist, you become aware very quickly that we use&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,140,178,215],"class_list":["post-5786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-paul","tag-ubi","tag-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}