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On 16 Feb 2022, Lefty Lundquist <lefty_lundquist@ggmail.com> posted some news:sujl1h$m2d$4@dont-email.me:

Minnesota is run by Democrat morons. What else would you expect?

Minneapolis's guaranteed basic income program has shown promising results
after a year.
The two-year GBI program gives $500 monthly to 200 low-income families, no strings attached.
Researchers found the payments boosted financial stability and didn't
cause recipients to work less.
The city of Minneapolis is experimenting with a guaranteed basic income program, and the preliminary results are promising.

Minneapolis has provided $500 monthly payments with no strings attached to
200 low-income families for the last year.

Numerous other cities nationwide have also tested basic income schemes
among small populations recently. Many of them have seen success in
alleviating poverty and homelessness — despite concern among some that
such programs could cause vulnerable populations to stop seeking work,
choosing instead to rely on the government.
A year into the two-year Minneapolis study, researchers and organizers
said there is no evidence that the monthly payments have caused recipients
to work less.

The study's authors found that recipients have "better mental health, more stable finances, and higher food security than households with the same
poverty status and from the same areas of the city" who weren't part of
the study.

"Recipients spend their GBI money — which represents about a one-third
boost to the total annual income of a typical participant — on major
monthly expenses like rent and food. We do not find evidence that payments cause recipients to work less, a common concern about GBI programs," researchers said in the summary of results, which were released earlier
this month.

Other cities experimenting with guaranteed basic income schemes have also reported encouraging results. In Denver, a program giving the city's
poorest residents $1,000 a month has been so successful it's been extended
for another six months.

As a result, more and more cities are trying it out, especially as
homelessness and wealth inequality in many parts of the country have
gotten worse. Flint, Michigan — for example — recently opened enrollment
for a basic income program for pregnant mothers, giving them a lump sum
during pregnancy and $500 a month for their baby's first year of life.

Despite the promising results, some lawmakers are fighting such programs
in their own cities and states.

In Iowa, two Republican state representatives are pushing legislation to
ban basic income programs, Business Insider reported. A lawmaker in Texas, meanwhile, called a newly launched basic income program in Harris County,
which includes Houston, unconstitutional.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/a-guaranteed-basic-income-program- in-minneapolis-found-that-even-after-a-year-of-giving-recipients-500-a- month-they-weren-t-working-any-less/ar-BB1hnxbD

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