{"id":74270,"date":"2017-12-08T01:48:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T09:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/canada-begins-paying-basic-income-to-citizens"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:01:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T02:01:13","slug":"canada-begins-paying-basic-income-to-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/canada-begins-paying-basic-income-to-citizens","title":{"rendered":"Canada begins paying basic income to citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/canada-begins-paying-basic-income-to-citizens.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/Canada\">Canada<\/a> is testing a basic income to discover what impact the policy has on unemployed people and those on low incomes.<\/p>\n<p>The province of Ontario is planning to give 4,000 citizens thousands of dollars a month and assess how it affects their health, wellbeing, earnings and productivity.<\/p>\n<p>It is among a number of regions and countries across the globe that are now piloting the scheme, which sees residents given a certain amount of money each month regardless of whether or not they are in work.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/canada-universal-basic-income-ontario-trial-citizens-residents-poverty-unemployment-benefits-a8082576.html\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/canada-univ...82576.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada is testing a basic income to discover what impact the policy has on unemployed people and those on low incomes. The province of Ontario is planning to give 4,000 citizens thousands of dollars a month and assess how it affects their health, wellbeing, earnings and productivity. It is among a number of regions and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1495,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-health","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74270","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=74270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74386,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74270\/revisions\/74386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}