{"id":28712,"date":"2023-06-06T10:40:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T09:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28712"},"modified":"2023-06-06T10:40:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T09:40:04","slug":"would-a-universal-basic-income-work-lets-try-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28712","title":{"rendered":"Would a universal basic income work? Let&#8217;s try it."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote>&#8220;A universal basic income of \u00a31,600 a month is to be trialled in England for the first time in a pilot programme.\n<p>\nThirty people will be paid a lump sum without conditions each month for two years and will be observed to understand the effects on their lives.\n<p>\nTwo places in England have been selected for the micro pilot scheme: central Jarrow, in north-east England, and East Finchley, in north London.&#8221;<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nThis is the opening of <a href=\"\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/jun\/04\/universal-basic-income-of-1600-pounds-a-month-to-be-trialled-in-england?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\">an article<\/a> about a trail of UBI in Britain. I hope that the trial is successful. The numbers look small and one needs to beware of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hawthorne_effect\">the Hawthorne effect<\/b>.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A universal basic income of \u00a31,600 a month is to be trialled in England for the first time in a pilot programme. Thirty people will be paid a lump sum without conditions each month for two years and will be observed to understand the effects on their lives. Two places in England have been selected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28712","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=28712"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28716,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28712\/revisions\/28716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}