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☆ Republican lawmakers in Iowa seek to block guaranteed basic income programs, calling them 'insane'
  + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Read previewRepublican lawmakers in Iowa are pulling out all the stops to block guaranteed basic income plans they described as "socialism on steroids." Guaranteed basic income programs typically offer no-strings-attached cash to certain groups, like the poor or new mothers. Universal basic income, its like-minded cousin, offers cash to entire populations regardless of income. Numerous counties and cities, many of them in red states, across the United States have been experimenting with guaranteed basic income plans. Holt called basic income programs an "attack on the work ethic in this country."
Persons: —, Steve Holt, Skyler Wheeler, Holt, Wheeler, Tonaeya Moore, It's, Moore, Joe Biden's, Nalo Johnson, Johnson, MINCOME, Evelyn Forget, Forget Organizations: Service, Business, The Gazette, Baltimore Young, Tax, Iowa Health Foundation, Gazette Locations: Iowa, United States, Texas, Harris County, Houston, Cedar Rapids, Flint , Michigan, Canada, Canadian
☆ Universal basic income improved lives in rural Canada when they tried it in the '70s. Here's why the program got scrapped.
  + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Katie Hawkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
A rural Canadian town gave its residents a type of universal basic income for three years. The study can still teach us lessons about the benefits of universal basic income, an expert says. AdvertisementAdvertisementFor four years in the late 1970s, Canada's Manitoba province ran a program called the Manitoba Basic Annual Income Experiment, or MINCOME. It was a guaranteed annual income program, which typically channels funds to people based on their income. Families with no income from other sources received payments that put them at 60% of the annual income, considered the cut-off for being low-income.
Persons: —, MINCOME, Evelyn Forget, she's, Forget, UBI Organizations: Service, Toronto Star, CTV News, CTV Locations: Manitoba, Dauphin , Manitoba, Canadian, Dauphin, MINCOME, Canada, Unemployment
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