https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/22313272\/stockton-basic-income-guaranteed-free-money<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“The city of Stockton, California, embarked on a bold experiment two years ago: It decided to distribute $500 a month to 125 people for 24 months \u2014 with no strings attached and no work requirements. The people were randomly chosen from neighborhoods at or below the city\u2019s median household income, and they were free to spend the money any way they liked. Meanwhile, researchers studied what impact the cash had on their lives.<\/p>\n
The results from the first year of the experiment, which spanned from February 2019 to February 2020, are now in.”<\/p>\n
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“The most eye-popping finding is that the people who received the cash managed to secure full-time jobs at more than twice the rate of people in a control group, who did not receive cash. 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.<\/p>\n
The researchers wrote in their report that the money gave recipients the stability they needed to set goals, take risks, and find new jobs. One man in his 30s had been eligible for a real estate license for over a year but hadn\u2019t gotten it because he just couldn\u2019t afford to take time off work. Thanks to the freedom offered by the extra $500 per month, he said, his life was \u201cconverted 360 degrees \u2026 because I have more time and net worth to study \u2026 to achieve my goals.\u201d” <\/p>\n
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“Cash recipients reported being less anxious and depressed than the control group. On average, the recipients \u201cexperienced clinically and statistically significant improvements in their mental health that the control group did not \u2014 moving from likely having a mild mental health disorder to likely mental wellness over the year-long intervention,\u201d according to the researchers.<\/p>\n
The cash also enabled recipients to help their family and friends. For example, one woman used the cash to help her siblings buy school clothes for their kids and to help her daughter-in-law pay for car insurance. Another bought diapers for her grandchildren.”<\/p>\n
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“The Stockton experiment was a small study with only 125 cash recipients, so the findings should be seen as offering supporting evidence on the effectiveness of cash programs rather than as definitive standalone proof.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[633,411,893],"class_list":["post-4987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-experiment","tag-policy","tag-universal-basic-income"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4988,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions\/4988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}