{"id":23353,"date":"2016-11-21T12:04:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T17:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23353"},"modified":"2016-11-21T12:04:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T17:04:45","slug":"what-would-happen-if-we-just-gave-people-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/11\/21\/what-would-happen-if-we-just-gave-people-money\/","title":{"rendered":"What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Five Thirty Eight<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/universal-basic-income\/\" target=\"_blank\">What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBasic income is not a single idea but a family of closely related ideas, which go by an assortment of names: universal basic income, unconditional basic income, social dividend, guaranteed annual income, citizen\u2019s income, negative income tax, etc. But the core motivation \u2014 to address social ills by just giving people money \u2014 has a long history.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A good discussion of this intriguing concept.  I haven&#8217;t had the chance to read the whole article.  That is why I post it here.  When I have the time, I can come back to it to read the rest of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Thirty Eight has the article What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money? Basic income is not a single idea but a family of closely related ideas, which go by an assortment of names: universal basic income, unconditional basic income, social dividend, guaranteed annual income, citizen\u2019s income, negative income tax, etc. But the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23354,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23353\/revisions\/23354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}