{"id":112013,"date":"2020-08-28T06:22:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T13:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/poverty-isnt-a-lack-of-character-its-a-lack-of-cash"},"modified":"2020-09-05T21:27:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T04:27:11","slug":"poverty-isnt-a-lack-of-character-its-a-lack-of-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/poverty-isnt-a-lack-of-character-its-a-lack-of-cash","title":{"rendered":"Poverty isn\u2019t a lack of character; it\u2019s a lack of cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/poverty-isnt-a-lack-of-character-its-a-lack-of-cash2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Basic income is not a favor, but a right.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cIdeas can and do change the world,\u201d says historian Rutger Bregman, sharing his case for a provocative one: guaranteed basic income. Learn more about the idea\u2019s 500-year history and a forgotten modern experiment where it actually worked \u2014 and imagine how much energy and talent we would unleash if we got rid of poverty once and for all.<\/p>\n<p>This talk was presented at an official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basic income is not a favor, but a right.\u201d \u201cIdeas can and do change the world,\u201d says historian Rutger Bregman, sharing his case for a provocative one: guaranteed basic income. Learn more about the idea\u2019s 500-year history and a forgotten modern experiment where it actually worked \u2014 and imagine how much energy and talent we [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112013","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112581,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112013\/revisions\/112581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}