More evidence that UBIs work
The report is back on another Universal Basic Income trial, this time in the USA. And as with the others, it shows that this policy works:
After getting $500 per month for two years without rules on how to spend it, 125 people in California paid off debt, got full-time jobs and reported lower rates of anxiety and depression, according to a study released Wednesday.[…]
When the program started in February 2019, 28% of the people slated to get the free money had full-time jobs. One year later, 40% of those people had full-time jobs. A control group of people who did not get the money saw a 5 percentage point increase in full-time employment over that same time period.
Open mike 06/03/2021 thestandard.org.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thestandard.org.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Environment Commissioner Simon Upton s new tourism report lays down the gauntlet nzherald.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nzherald.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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While the auditor-general probes the way tourism aid was handled, not all operators want the money they were offered.
Parliament’s environmental watchdog says the tourism industry has been carried and cosseted for too long, while its impact on the environment has been largely ignored. In a new report released yesterday, Simon Upton says it’s time for real action, not more marketing spin and hollow talk about “sustainability”. Mike White investigates how tourism has become a problem area, despite being a crucial part of New Zealand’s economy. Poor Simon Upton. Just three months after the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment released his first report into the looming calamity of tourism’s unbridled growth, New Zealand shut its borders, due to Covid-19.