Mincome

The MINCOME was a social experiment, which was to examine the effects of the introduction of a guaranteed annual basic income in the 1970s. It received city residents Dauphin, Canada from 1974 an annual money payment, which corresponded to a present value equivalent to at least U.S. $ 5,500 per person.

After an abrupt end of the experiment in 1977, there was no official release of the results. The former research director Derek Hum released only gradually partial results of the study. Thus, only a small decrease in the willingness to work could be found. Professor Dr. Evelyn Forget ( University of Manitoba ) brought the social project recently again this week. With her investigation " Town with no poverty" she grabs Hums on results and tried by a retrospective analysis of the data to investigate long-term effects of the experiment.

In the U.S., there were five major projects that dealt with effects of the introduction of a basic income. Thus, in the fight against poverty under President Lyndon B. Johnson, in New Jersey, North Carolina, Seattle ( Washington), Denver (Colorado), and introduced a basic income in Gary (Iowa).

From a "real" unconditional basic income one can not speak, however. The model corresponds to a negative income tax, and is thus linked to the income.