In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche
Nobody knows if the basic income program was a success because the data is not in. Although, USA Today claimed it had failed with no proof. Any data generated will be suspect because it sounds as if social-services bureaucrats; afraid for their jobs, rigged the program to fail.
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“The universal basic income gives people a degree of certainty and proper security,” Kerr told The Guardian. “Few people now can expect to go through their entire working lives in the same job. People change jobs much more frequently and this leaves gaps and we don’t deal with the gaps properly. It takes weeks to register and to become eligible for payments and weeks for them to come through. By that time, they have become consumed in a spiral of debt from which they rarely emerge.”
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