£1,600 per month is set to be paid to participants in a “Universal Basic Income (UBI) ‘micro pilot scheme’” – the first such trial in England.
A total of 30 people from central Jarrow in Tyne & Wear and East Finchley in north London will be studied to assess the effect receiving UBI has on their mental and physical health. A control group, who won’t be paid the UBI, will also be monitored.
Participants will be randomly selected from a pool of volunteers, with 20% of places reserved for people with disabilities.
At the time of writing, the trial has yet to begin, as funding hasn’t been secured, but it is expected to come from local/combined authorities, or ‘private philanthropic sources.’
In Wales, a scheme is already underway which pays this same monthly amount of money (£1,600) to young people leaving Care. (I have to resist the urge to put ironic quotation marks around that last word; but perhaps it’s a slightly less nauseating phrase than the mealy-mouthed ‘looked-after children’.)
While the stated aim is to support young Care-leavers, rather than advance the UBI concept, the Welsh government acknowledges that the two-year pilot scheme is a ‘contribution to a global movement’ as one of around eighty UBI trials taking place globally. more here
20% of 30 people? Is being black African a disability? Muslim? Pakistani rapists? Are whites even allowed to participate?
WTF is a “care leaver”??? I won’t keep reading.
FJB
And the insanity continues…
FWEF
The most expensive thing on the planet is “Free Shit”!
I’ve been seeing this coming for a long time. Our ONLY SALVATION is going to be TOTAL DEVASTATION!
they should get another group to try that “I make a zillion dollars a week” ad and see what works out better.
Wait until the farmers and cattlemen decide that they just want the free money too.
The domestication of the people has always been the goal of Socialism.
Just as happens when the minimum wage is raised, prices will adjust to the base income, making the poor just as poor and making more people poor in the process. A universal basic income can only work with universal price controls and price controls create scarcity. To avoid scarcity, all aspects of the economy must then be controlled. Universal basic income is a gateway drug to the (unattainable) socialist utopia.
“The first one is free” is the oldest, most successful come-on in the history of the world.
Somebody, I don’t know who, wrote these words. I’m just quoting them.
You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
Universal Basic Income is endorsed by drug dealers worldwide.
Is this another scheme hatched by the CCP to help take down America? Is this another democrat my-idea-your-money scam?
I think I’m already in the second control group?
Paying people to do nothing and then surprise, they do nothing except spend other peoples (your) money.
By the way, one of the things about human behavior is when you give people free stuff, it will end up never being enough. And it will be your fault in their heads.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
There
Ain’t
No
Such
Thing
As
A
Free
Lunch
Robert Heinlein “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, among other books he wrote.