Toronto residents pin hopes on basic income

TheStar.com – News/GTA – Man who ended up on the streets says new pilot project to fight poverty could have made a huge difference to his life if it had been in place when he lost his job.

As Ontario gears up to launch a basic income pilot project, described as a simpler, more effective way to fight poverty than welfare and other supports, the Star spoke to three Torontonians struggling to get by to see how they would spend the no-strings-attached payment.

* * *Tim Kay quit school when he was 16 to work in his father’s window […]

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