{"id":20412,"date":"2016-01-02T20:48:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T04:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/german-experiment-will-test-whether-the-welfare-state-can-be-replaced-by-a-basic-guaranteed-income"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:16:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:16:51","slug":"german-experiment-will-test-whether-the-welfare-state-can-be-replaced-by-a-basic-guaranteed-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/german-experiment-will-test-whether-the-welfare-state-can-be-replaced-by-a-basic-guaranteed-income","title":{"rendered":"German experiment will test whether the welfare state can be replaced by a basic guaranteed income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/german-experiment-will-test-whether-the-welfare-state-can-be-replaced-by-a-basic-guaranteed-income.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new experiment to give away money as \u201cbasic income\u201d is underway in Germany. In 2014, Michael Bohmeyer, a 31-year-old German entrepreneur, launched \u201cMy Basic Income\u201d (\u201cMein Grundeinkommen\u201d), and this month, the project, made possible through crowdfunding, issued $1,100 checks to 26 people to use however they want. Leftists in Germany tend to support the idea\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Advertising<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2015\/12\/german-experiment-will-test-whether-the-welfare-state-can-be-replaced-by-a-basic-guaranteed-income\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new experiment to give away money as \u201cbasic income\u201d is underway in Germany. In 2014, Michael Bohmeyer, a 31-year-old German entrepreneur, launched \u201cMy Basic Income\u201d (\u201cMein Grundeinkommen\u201d), and this month, the project, made possible through crowdfunding, issued $1,100 checks to 26 people to use however they want. Leftists in Germany tend to support the [\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-20412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20412","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=20412"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68927,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20412\/revisions\/68927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}