{"id":76505,"date":"2018-03-04T01:22:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T09:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/more-americans-now-support-a-universal-basic-income"},"modified":"2018-03-06T15:03:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T23:03:32","slug":"more-americans-now-support-a-universal-basic-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/more-americans-now-support-a-universal-basic-income","title":{"rendered":"More Americans now support a universal basic income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/more-americans-now-support-a-universal-basic-income.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pilots of such programs are underway in Finland and Canada. In rural Kenya, a basic income is managed by nonprofit GiveDirectly. India \u2014 with a population of more than 1.3 billion residents \u2014 is considering establishing a universal basic income.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Half of Americans want the government to send them weekly checks, regardless of their income or work.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/02\/26\/roughly-half-of-americans-now-support-universal-basic-income.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/02\/26\/roughly-half-of-americans-no...ncome.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilots of such programs are underway in Finland and Canada. In rural Kenya, a basic income is managed by nonprofit GiveDirectly. India \u2014 with a population of more than 1.3 billion residents \u2014 is considering establishing a universal basic income. Half of Americans want the government to send them weekly checks, regardless of their income [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76505","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76583,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76505\/revisions\/76583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}