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Denver experimented with giving people $1,000 a month. It reduced homelessness and increased full-time employment, a study found. (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (22 children)

This is a fantastic article and incredibly interesting:

Last October, more than 800 people were enrolled in the basic-income plan, but they didn't all receive the same stipend. There are three groups: One receives $1,000 a month for a year; another receives $6,500 up front and then $500 a month from there; and another gets just $50 a month.

While cautioning that this was only an interim six-month follow-up for what is a yearlong program, the researchers nonetheless found stark and encouraging changes in participants' material conditions. Those who received $500 a month or more had seen the biggest gains. At the start, fewer than 10% said they were living in their own home or apartment, while at the six-month point, more than a third said they lived in their own housing.

Edit: The results make me think of all of these programs that are trying to get people out of homelessness should cut way back and just do a basic income with that money (with life help classes and guidance of course).

[+] [email protected] -12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Those who received $500 a month or more had seen the biggest gains.

God I hate such empty bullshit. Of course the only group that got less, only 1/10th of the next group, saw by far the smallest gains. What a completely empty sentence.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's a finding. Not a statement. It's an observation of the data. Opinions are not valid. If you feel that "of course that is obvious duuuhh" well you can't actually make that claim unless you have data and the data reflects this. That's how science works.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

You are technically correct, but:

When you already only compare 3 groups and 2 are fairly close to each other while one is far off, it is nonsensical to point out large differences between the 2 cohorts. They defined them to be that way.
This is not a scientific paper, it is not even a STEM related newspaper. Leave such nonsense out of there. Nobody needs a study to find that more rain = more water.

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