Individuals who received the $1,000/mo or $500/mo payments were more likely to find a stable, full-time job than before they received the basic income. Results showed 45% of participants secured housing, while $589,214 was saved in public service costs. "It's freedom. It's freedom from poverty..."
Participants in Denver's basic income program received up to $1,000 a month. They became more housing secure and landed full-time jobs.
It's unpopular not to let ppl suffer. I blame the puritans.
Conservative types do not understand that evolution created care and empathy because it works, and it keeps all of us safer, better, and healthier for longer, as part of a community. Give people a route back to being part of the community and they take it.
US is bankrupt and poorer than ever #capitalism is collapsing
In France « Half of current business leaders created their business while benefiting from unemployment insurance assistance. », numbers coming from the official administration : www.unedic.org/publications...
Several cities in Canada have also tested this and each had success as well.
Is that even enough for a 1BR apartment near public transit (plus public transit) there? It doesnât seem like enoughâ like youâd need start-up costs for 3 mos just to find a job (any job) and then $1k/mo to supplement your job (that probably pays shit)
Sidenote on Colorado.I watched a Dr Berg segment on you tube called âWhy are people in Colorado not fat?â Turns out itâs their super high absorption of D3 do to their altitude.
Some wise person once said, "The chief cause of poverty is lack of money."