Posted: Dec 28, 2016 9:09 am
by Scot Dutchy
Beatsong wrote:Galactor - is there any information available from those local areas in the Netherlands that have tried it, describing successes and/or failures?


It was reported in September that four town councils in certain districts want to try with an experimental basic income.
They are Utrecht,Wageningen, Groningen and Tilburg. Sadly it is a watered down version and up till everything is rather quiet. It was meant to start per 1 January.

Here is a link to a Dutch newspaper report.
http://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/experiment-in-vier-gemeenten-meer-vrijheid-voor-uitkeringsgerechtigden~a4386908/