By Jason Burke Murphy On October 3rd, the Social Work Department at the University of Manitoba held a Symposium on the Mincome Experiment conducted in Dauphin, Manitoba in the 1970’s. This included presentations by the Director of the Mincome Experiment in the 1970’s, Ron Hikel. The resources from the Mincome Symposium held at the University of Manitoba (including the
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The Mincome Experiment is a documentary that is as much a story about basic income as it is about human socioeconomic evolution throughout the years.
» Read moreAbstract: This paper examines the impact of a social experiment from the 1970s called the Manitoba Basic Annual Income Experiment (Mincome). I examine Mincome’s “saturation” site located in Dauphin, Manitoba, where all town residents were eligible for guaranteed annual income payments for three years. Drawing on archived qualitative participant accounts I show that the design and framing of Mincome led
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Dowd discusses the negative income tax experiments in Canada and the U.S. in the context of recent discussions on basic income in Canada. Emma Dowd, “Canadian ‘Mincome’ Program Aims to Reduce Poverty”, The Borgen Project, 14 July 2015.
» Read moreMIPR University of Manitoba, “Panel 1: The Legacy of Mincome & other Basic Income Experiments – Evelyn Forget” Manitoba Institute for Policy Research. March 26, 2015.
» Read more[Craig Axford] Residents of Dauphin, Manitoba who benefited from Canada’s experiment with a basic income guarantee look back upon it fondly. Research conducted four decades after the so-called “Mincome” experiment found the project resulted in a significant decline in hospital visits without producing a reduction in labor market participation. Benjamin Shingler, “Money for nothing: Mincome experiment could pay dividends 40
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Minho, Portugal. Picture credit to: Notícias ao Minuto Last Wednesday there was a Conference on Basic Income at Universidade do Minho, called “Rendimento Básico: uma Ferramenta para uma Europa Social? [Basic Income: a Tool for a Social Europe?]”. It was organized by Centro de Ética, Política e Sociedade [Center for Ethics, Politics and Society] (CEPS), together with several institutional
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The discussion of a “basic income” often conflates basic income and a negative income tax. Basic Income has been marginalized in current social and political discourse.
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Four Ontario mayors, with a letter addressed to Jean-Yves Duclos, who sits in the present Canadian federal cabinet as Minister of Families, Children, and Social Development, appeal to the Federal Government for assuming oversight over the Basic Income Pilot project in their communities. The letter from the Mayors of Brantford, Hamilton, Kawartha Lakes and Thunder Bay follows the early end of
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Scientific reasoning rarely works in the public sphere. Instead, basic income projects are at risk of ending prematurely.
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