Between 1974 and 1979, residents of a small Manitoba city were selected to be subjects in a project that ensured basic annual incomes for everyone. For five years, monthly checks were delivered to the poorest residents of Dauphin, Manitoba –- no strings attached.
Dr. Evelyn Forget is the researcher at University of Manitoba credited for tracking down those 1,800 dusty boxes of Mincome raw data that sat forgotten for 30 years. She first heard about the project in an undergraduate economics class at the University of Toronto in the ‘70s. Mincome checks were still being delivered when her professors praised the experiment as “really important,” saying it was going to “revolutionize” the delivery of social programs. It stuck with her...
In 2011, Forget released a paper distilling how Mincome affected people’s health using census data. She found overall hospitalization rates (for accidents, injuries, and mental health diagnoses) dropped in the group who received basic income supplements....
via: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/30/city-eliminated-poverty-mincome_n_6392126.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013
Need to find the 2011 paper...
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