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Exogenous Increases in Basic Income Provisions Increase Preventive Health-Seeking Behavior
“Universal Basic Income (UBI) policies have the potential to promote a wide range of public health objectives by providing those who qualify with direct cash payments. One overlooked mechanism of particular importance to health researchers is the possibility that guaranteed income might increase consultation of primary and preventive care (e.g., annual doctors’ visits; regular vaccination against infectious…
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A US Basic Income Experiment that Wasn’t
By Guy Standing In July 2024, the National Bureau of Economic Research issued a report from the researchers on an income-transfer project conducted in Illinois and Texas. It has generated global attention, with some commentators saying it undermines the case for basic income, others that it supports the case for it. This note is a…
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Did Sam Altman’s Basic Income Experiment Succeed or Fail?
The results of one of the biggest basic income experiments ever came out in July 2024, and as usual, the nuances of the findings are lost among the voices of those loudly proclaiming basic income doesn’t work. This one is the three-year pilot of Sam Altman’s that provided $1,000 a month to 1,000 people in Texas…
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Monthly payments of $1,000 could get thousands of Los Angeles homeless people off the streets, researchers say
“A monthly payment of $750 to $1,000 would allow thousands of the city’s homeless people to find informal housing, living in boarding homes, in shared apartments and with family and friends, according to a policy brief by four prominent Los Angeles academics.” To read the full Los Angeles Times article by Doug Smith, click here.
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Denver Basic Income Project Releases Year One Research Report
Photo: Armando GeneyroNote: The use of the term Basic Income in this article does not conform to BIEN’s definition. Denver Basic Income Project (DBIP) has released the results its Year One quantitative and quantitative findings. What the research has discovered supports what DBIP always believed – that guaranteed income gives families and individuals financial tools,…
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