Posted: Dec 28, 2016 11:15 am
Scot Dutchy wrote: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/
It's indeed starting in January although other papers are reporting this in 2015. It's going to last for two years. And the government is indeed messing it up. The investigative institution is the University of Utrecht. They are somewhat pissed off that they can't actually carry out the experiment as designed as the government are insisting that no extra income may be earned while the participants are being subsidized.
The whole point of having an unconditional wage was to get people out of poverty-welfare traps. Jesus wept.