Suggestions for a small experiment
Alert: lots of slides, may be too long for your email
Last week, I gave a presentation at the 2024 Australian Basic Income Fellows Workshop. Most of the talks were about Basic Income trials, which have been undertaken around the world. I focused on something more modest but perhaps more achievable: getting evidence on the effects of Scrapping or Scaling Back Mutual Obligation and Income Management.
In this newsletter, I’ve experimented with including all the slides, which may produce an email too long for some clients. If you have that problem, you can download the Powerpoint presentation here.
I’d be interested in comments on whether this way of presenting the results worked, and whether people prefer it to a hyperlink. Also, of course, any responses to what I had to say.
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Love the slides! It seems like a no brainer that income management and mutual obligation have failed - though having objective evidence of that has merit as a nail in the coffin.
That said, I've never understood this fixation on universality in a basic income. It seems to me to be advocating for welfare payments to be extended without excluding the very well-off....
Hi John, my subject for my Masters thesis on evaluation, too many years ago, was associated with indigenous wellbeing in remote areas. In a nut shell wellbeing measurements we might use in a western society are not that appropriate for this cohort. How you get around that without an evaluation design argument on ideological grounds will be hard. I concluded that some western measures are completely contradictory and or irrelevant.