{"id":111742,"date":"2020-08-22T10:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T17:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/germany-is-set-to-trial-a-universal-basic-income-scheme"},"modified":"2020-08-22T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T17:22:19","slug":"germany-is-set-to-trial-a-universal-basic-income-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/germany-is-set-to-trial-a-universal-basic-income-scheme","title":{"rendered":"Germany is set to trial a Universal Basic Income scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/germany-is-set-to-trial-a-universal-basic-income-scheme.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Germany is about to become the latest country to trial a universal basic income, starting a three-year study of how it affects the economy and recipients\u2019 well-being.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the study, 120 people will receive \u20ac1,200, or about $1,430, each month for three years \u2014 an amount just above Germany\u2019s poverty line \u2014 and researchers will compare their experiences with another group of 1,380 people who will not receive the payments.<\/p>\n<p>The study, conducted by the German Institute for Economic Research, has been funded by 140,000 private donations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany is about to become the latest country to trial a universal basic income, starting a three-year study of how it affects the economy and recipients\u2019 well-being. As part of the study, 120 people will receive \u20ac1,200, or about $1,430, each month for three years \u2014 an amount just above Germany\u2019s poverty line \u2014 and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}