Ireland tries universal income for artists

Ireland tries universal income for artists

Program provides $380 a week to creative professionals

What Ireland’s Experiment with Universal Basic Income Shows Us about the Economy

Ireland started with artists because they were an easy case: chronically underpaid, culturally necessary, structurally abandoned by the market, and the political argument was winnable. But the experiment proves something more general: unconditional income produces more output, not less, generates return and not just expenditure, and retains people in socially valuable work who would otherwise give up.

Ireland Makes Basic Income Program for Artists Permanent | BIEN — Basic Income Earth Network

Photo by Alejandro Luengo on Unsplash The use of “Basic Income” in this article does not meet BIEN’s definition “The Irish government will give 2,000 artists unrestricted weekly stipends, following a successful three-year basic income pilot program. Last week, Ireland’s Department of Culture, Communications and Sport announced it would create a recurring basic income program […]