{"id":26477,"date":"2016-06-05T05:49:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T12:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/latest-update-126-pm-estimates-now-show-that-perhaps-22-of-switzerland-voted-yes-basic-income"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:17:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:17:18","slug":"latest-update-126-pm-estimates-now-show-that-perhaps-22-of-switzerland-voted-yes-basic-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/latest-update-126-pm-estimates-now-show-that-perhaps-22-of-switzerland-voted-yes-basic-income","title":{"rendered":"Latest update: (1:26 PM) Estimates now show that perhaps 22% of Switzerland voted YES. \u2014 Basic income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/latest-update-126-pm-estimates-now-show-that-perhaps-22-of-switzerland-voted-yes-basic-income.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is the day Switzerland voted on the idea of an unconditional basic income. It is a first. It is historic. It is direct democracy in action.<\/p>\n<p>As I write this here from inside the campaign headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, the polls are still open and people are still voting, but as soon as they close, I will publish this and update it throughout the day with results as they come in and also the results of a representative survey that questioned Swiss voters in detail about how they feel about basic income now.<\/p>\n<p>For those who wish to follow what\u2019s going on throughout the day on video, here is the livestream. Yes, it\u2019s in German. No, there is not an alternate version where they\u2019re all speaking English.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/basic-income\/the-results-of-the-basic-income-referendum-in-switzerland-f1723925e54f#.p85vwf5w1\">https:\/\/medium.com\/basic-income\/the-results-of-the-basic-inc....p85vwf5w1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the day Switzerland voted on the idea of an unconditional basic income. It is a first. It is historic. It is direct democracy in action. As I write this here from inside the campaign headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, the polls are still open and people are still voting, but as soon as they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26477","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\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61624,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26477\/revisions\/61624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}