Mincome and Eric Richardson

household income: Eric Richardson still has the dining table and chairs his parents bought during the Mincome social experiment of the 1970s, according to Rabble. The carpentry instructor, who grew up in the small Manitoba town of Dauphin, was about 12 years old when the four-year guaranteed annual income program was implemented in his rural hometown in 1974. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. Dubbed Mincome, the program provided about 1,000 low-income families -- including the Richardsons -- with monthly cheques that topped up their household income to a base amount. Due to budget problems, a final report on the data from program researchers was never completed. Funded by the provincial and federal governments, Mincome was originally devised as a way to test whether basic income guarantees discouraged people from working. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.