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Jérémy H.

A Town Without Poverty?: Canada's only experiment in guaranteed income finally gets rec... - 0 views

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shared by Jérémy H. on 31 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • The government wanted to know what would happen if everybody in town received a guaranteed income, and specifically, they wanted to know whether people would still work. It turns out they did.
  • Only two segments of Dauphin's labour force worked less as a result of Mincome—new mothers and teenagers. Mothers with newborns stopped working because they wanted to stay at home longer with their babies. And teenagers worked less because they weren't under as much pressure to support their families.
  • “People didn't have to take the first job that came along,” says Hikel. “They could wait for something better that suited them.”
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  • For some, it meant the opportunity to land a job to help them get by.
  • In the period that Mincome was administered, hospital visits dropped 8.5 per cent. Fewer people went to the hospital with work-related injuries and there were fewer emergency room visits from car accidents and domestic abuse. There were also far fewer mental health visits.
  • If a guaranteed income program can target more people and is more efficient than other social assistance programs, then why doesn't Canada have such a program in place already? Perhaps the biggest barrier is the prevalence of negative stereotypes about poor people.
Mickael Bentz

(Anglais) A Plan in Case Robots Take the Jobs: Give Everyone a Paycheck (New York Times) - 0 views

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New York Times revenu de base travail technologie

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  • Mickael Bentz on 12 Mar 16
     
    Let's say computers come for most of our jobs. This may not seem likely at the moment; computer scientists and economists offer wildly varying ideas for how deeply automation will affect future employment. But for the sake of argument, imagine that within two or three decades we'll have morphed into the Robotic States of America.
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