Aff studies don’t assume a large BI
Morici 21, American economist and Professor Emeritus of International Business at the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a graduate of SUNY Albany in New York State, where he received his Ph.D in economics in 1974 (Peter, “Democrats’ guaranteed annual income plans will define the 2022 midterms,” Washington Times, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/1/democrats-guaranteed-annual-income-plans-will-defi/)//BB
Progressives are busy rolling out studies that proport to show guaranteed incomes have little significant effect on people working. Those examine U.S. and Canadian programs like the Stockton experiment, which gave 125 individuals $500 a month for two years, and the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend. Generally, those benefits are sometimes temporary, not large enough to live on and only marginally impact on employment, but hours worked is quite different from whether someone is employed at all.