Mincome

Mincome is cited in Kyle’s corpus as a key piece of empirical evidence in the case for Universal Basic Income. On the UBI page, the Manitoba “Mincome” experiment sits alongside Esther Duflo’s RCTs and the “cash-vs-microcredit verdict” as one of the most-studied demonstrations that the most effective anti-poverty tool is an unconditional cash transfer rather than means-tested aid or job-training. It enters the wiki through Rutger Bregman’s Utopia For Realists, the source that frames UBI as “venture capital for the people.”

Context: Mincome was a guaranteed-annual-income experiment run in Manitoba, Canada, in the mid-1970s, most famously in the town of Dauphin (“the town with no poverty”). Later analysis of its data found that the income floor reduced hospitalizations and improved outcomes while producing only small reductions in work, results often invoked by modern basic-income advocates.

Where this appears

• Universal Basic Income — the Manitoba Mincome experiment is listed as core evidence that unconditional cash beats means-tested alternatives.
• Utopia For Realists — Bregman’s book, the upstream source for the Mincome citation in Kyle’s notes.