LAPD's budget is $1.3 billion dollars, annually. For one year they moved $11 million of that (0.8%) to a basic income guarantee experiment that dramatically improved quality of life for 3600 people in LA by giving them $1000 a month. Like all basic income guarantee programs it is ending with no sign of sustained funding. LAPD's budget will increase by ~$75 million this year.
Every time.
@jonny I'm certainly growing tired of the endless "experiments" with basic income that all show basically the same outcome, with those calling for them seemingly having no intention to ever do anything with it.
Like, it's a good thing by itself that some folks have been helped out of poverty, but as far as I can tell, these "experiments" are really just the government equivalent of 'concerntrolling' about how "we can't adopt an unproven policy like this, need experiments first" until people stop paying attention to the topic again.
