Michigan’s $55M experiment with guaranteed income begins with Flint moms | Bridge Michigan
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Michigan will experiment with guaranteed income in Flint, one of its poorest cities, giving expectant and new moms $7,500 — no strings attached — to lift the stress of poverty from their newborns.

FLINT—Eight days after entering the world, Khi’Meir Taylor made another debut — this time in what could be a national spotlight.

Wednesday was the first day of a $55 million experiment to test whether cash payments can protect children from the toxic stress of poverty.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    21·
    6 months ago

    Okay, then how is this different from UBI? Are you supposed to keep a log of what you cleaned that day?

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
      25·
      6 months ago

      Hypothetically, someone who literally plays video games all day and doesn’t clean up after themselves wouldn’t get any income.

      You raise a good point, though, that measuring domestic labor is hard. I spend an hour in the garden, was that because it was an hour of work or because I was working at a leisurely pace? I spent an hour vacuuming the house, is a government inspector going to come check? It’s not a practical idea unless mass surveillance gets to a point where there’s a camera in your eye that reports to the government lol

      So like I said, UBI is fine. I just wish there was a way to compensate unpaid domestic and reproductive labor. That would be more fair.