{"id":24466,"date":"2016-04-08T17:50:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T00:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/new-zealanders-want-to-give-everyone-a-citizens-wage-and-scrap-benefits"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:23:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:23:49","slug":"new-zealanders-want-to-give-everyone-a-citizens-wage-and-scrap-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/new-zealanders-want-to-give-everyone-a-citizens-wage-and-scrap-benefits","title":{"rendered":"New Zealanders want to give everyone a \u2018citizen\u2019s wage\u2019 and scrap benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-zealanders-want-to-give-everyone-a-citizens-wage-and-scrap-benefits.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand could become one of the first developed countries to scrap benefits and introduce a basic citizens\u2019 income.<\/p>\n<p> Leader of the opposition Andrew Little said his Labour party was considering the idea as part of proposals to combat the \u201cpossibility of higher structural unemployment\u201d. <\/p>\n<p> Citizens\u2019 income, also known as Universal Basic Income (UBI), involves a basic, unconditional, fixed payment made to every person in the country by the state in lieu of benefits.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/australasia\/new-zealand-plan-to-give-everyone-a-citizens-wage-and-scrap-benefits-a6932136.html\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/australasia\/new-zeal...32136.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand could become one of the first developed countries to scrap benefits and introduce a basic citizens\u2019 income. Leader of the opposition Andrew Little said his Labour party was considering the idea as part of proposals to combat the \u201cpossibility of higher structural unemployment\u201d. Citizens\u2019 income, also known as Universal Basic Income (UBI), involves [\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-24466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24466","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=24466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50844,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24466\/revisions\/50844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}