New Study Raises Concerns Over Universal Basic Income Plans
7th August 2025
Various Democratic cities are already implementing UBI systems.
Now, a new study finds (as did some prior studies) that UBI systems have not achieved significant improvements and may actually have some negative consequences for recipients.
A working paper?with the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that UBI recipients did indeed spend more money, including a 13 percent increase on child-related expenses. There was also a slight increase in parental supervision of children.
However, there was no improved school performance and a slight increase in reported developmental and stress-related problems with children.
Stanford’s Basic Income Lab is tracking more than 160 UBI projects?in the U.S..
So far, the results are at best mixed.
Guess what? You get more of what you pay for. If you pay people to not-work, they won’t work.
But somebody has to pay for that. Guess who? The people who DO work.
Natural Selection is not mocked. Eventually this system will come apart, and the old ways will re-assert themselves.
Sometimes the old ways are best.