Becoming a kinder gentler society
Switzerland’s proposal for paying people for being alive. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/magazine/switzerlands-proposal-to-pay-people-for-being-alive.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&emc=eta1
The article refers to the Dauphin Project in Manitoba which was very successful. The results of which were all but buried by succeeding governments. Evelyn Forget waded through boxes of non-computerized data to come up with best research on the topic. ” Some of her findings were obvious: Poverty disappeared. But others were more surprising: High-school completion rates went up; hospitalization rates went down. “If you have a social program like this, community values themselves start to change,” Forget said.
Please read the article. We could be kinder, gentler, more equable society.