'More Normal than Welfare': The Mincome Experiment, Stigma, and Community Experience
David Calnitsky — 'More Normal than Welfare': The Mincome Experiment, Stigma, and Community Experience (2016)David Calnitsky · 2016 · Article · AbstractTheorySource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0493 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: Mincome: the Manitoba Basic Annual Income Experiment (Dauphin, 1974–1979) · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“Drawing on archived qualitative accounts from Dauphin participants, Calnitsky finds that Mincome's design and framing led recipients to view payments pragmatically rather than through the moralistic lens applied to welfare, and that participation did not produce social stigma.”
Evidence that supports
1Evidence that contradicts
0No counter-evidence recorded.
Status history
No earlier revisions.
Disputes
No disputes have been filed.