The Dutch city of Utrecht has decided to conduct an experiment to measure the effectiveness of lessening welfare regulations. People already receiving welfare will be given an unconditional and regular payment monthly, and using different groups of people following different rules, the government will figure out the effects of continued payments to those who manage to find a new source of income. Skeptics of the basic income policy have argued that those on welfare become lazy to find employment, but project manager for the Utrecht city government believes that this experiment may reveal that those given public money may be trusted to be productive with it. Do you think that providing a basic income should be the new welfare policy?
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