I favor this approach over minimum wage hikes whose impacts differ greatly depending on locality. A federal program would also not trap folks in a dying area and give them the ability to move where opportunity is or takes them.
There are a lot of things that can go wrong, but it is definitely worth the experiment.
this sort of initiative just keeps coming up. i'm fascinated by the premise, it seems promising but i'm sure there's a stack of things that could go terribly wrong
There may be pitfalls, but without data it is hard to know what they might be.
Within a year, the proportion of cash recipients who had full-time jobs jumped from 28 percent to 40 percent. The control group saw only a 5 percent jump over the same period.
Small sample, but this seems like a significant data point.
Very interesting. What I’m missing is data to understand what % of the total income the $500 represented and how the results might have changed as the percentages changed
I favor this approach over minimum wage hikes whose impacts differ greatly depending on locality. A federal program would also not trap folks in a dying area and give them the ability to move where opportunity is or takes them.
There are a lot of things that can go wrong, but it is definitely worth the experiment.
Agreed, our minimum wage leaves many below the poverty line.
Payments to citizens should not be considered welfare, they are compensation for use of shared resources.
this sort of initiative just keeps coming up. i'm fascinated by the premise, it seems promising but i'm sure there's a stack of things that could go terribly wrong
There may be pitfalls, but without data it is hard to know what they might be.
Small sample, but this seems like a significant data point.
Very interesting. What I’m missing is data to understand what % of the total income the $500 represented and how the results might have changed as the percentages changed
Great question.