Hey Finland! Canada Tried Guaranteed Income Once, and It Worked
▻http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2016/01/21/Finland-Guaranteed-Income
Here in Canada, however, the “Mincome” experiment in Manitoba launched in 1974. While some aspects of Mincome were like the American trials, we tried something different: all 10,000 people in the town of Dauphin were included. Without going into the details, the experiment offered a real income boost to old people, the working poor and single men.
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Squabbles between Ottawa and the provincial government complicated matters, and when the program ended in 1979, much of its data was “archived” but not analyzed.
Still, Dr. Forget was able to draw some striking conclusions from those archives. After Mincome launched, she found, “Dauphin residents had a significantly lower rate of hospitalization than the controls” — fewer cases of accidents and injuries, fewer mental health cases, even fewer births to women under the age of 25. The rate of family breakups was unchanged from pre-Mincome years.
“The results,” Dr. Forget concluded, “would seem to suggest that a guaranteed annual income, implemented broadly in society, may improve health and social outcomes at the community level.”
Intéressante expérimentation !
►http://public.econ.duke.edu/~erw/197/forget-cea%20%282%29.pdf
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_Mincome
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