{"id":22363,"date":"2017-12-26T12:43:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T11:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22363"},"modified":"2017-12-26T12:51:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T11:51:42","slug":"would-a-universal-basic-income-really-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22363","title":{"rendered":"Would a universal basic income really work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We need some new, big and bold, ideas to tackle poverty and inequality. \u00a0I have done an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21087\">earlier posting<\/a> about the intriguing idea of a universal basic income. \u00a0I don\u2019t know if this approach would work but I think we should try it.<\/p>\n<p>There is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21346\">a trial in Canada<\/a>; there is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/oct\/31\/finland-universal-basic-income?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\">a trial in Finland<\/a>; and today\u2019s \u201cGuardian\u201d newspaper reports on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2017\/dec\/25\/scotland-universal-basic-income-councils-pilot-scheme?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\">forthcoming trials<\/a> in four local authority areas in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see if it works and let\u2019s be guided by the evidence &#8211; as we should with all social policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need some new, big and bold, ideas to tackle poverty and inequality. \u00a0I have done an earlier posting about the intriguing idea of a universal basic income. \u00a0I don\u2019t know if this approach would work but I think we should try it. There is a trial in Canada; there is a trial in Finland; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22363"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22369,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22363\/revisions\/22369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}