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You can read about the results of UBI experiments in Finland and Canada:

Finland: https://www.kela.fi/web/en/news-archive/-/asset_publisher/lN...

Canada: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200624-canadas-forgot...

This sentence in the BBC article above is great:

> In particular, Forget was struck by the improvements in health outcomes over the four years. There was an 8.5% decline in hospitalisations – primarily because there were fewer alcohol-related accidents and hospitalisations due to mental health issues – and a reduction in visits to family physicians.

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That is promising, but US examples are less auspicious.

Two large unconditional programs that come to mind are the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend to state residents and tribal distributions to Native Americans.

Alaska tends to lead various reports on drug/alcohol abuse per capita and "Although they only make up 1.7% of the U.S. population, Native Americans experience substance abuse and addiction at much higher rates than other ethnic groups."

https://americanaddictioncenters.org/alcoholism-treatment/na...

Did you read the link you posted? Here’s a direct quote from the section discussing the factors contributing to the prevalence of alcoholism is Native American communities:

“The overall economic disadvantage of Native Americans, characterized by poor education, poverty, and limited resources, likely contributes to the prevalent abuse of alcohol among this ethnic group.”

Elsewhere on the page it cites the specifics such as lack of access to education, lack of access to health care, underemployment. Let’s not forget centuries of getting fucked over by the federal government.

Do you have source which lists UBI as another factor?

Current events indicate the US can take something the rest of the world accomplishes and make a royal mess of it.

I would love to take part in such an experiment and be on UBI while the rest of society is not.

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