Province to follow trail blazed by Manitoba in the mid-1970s with plan to lift people out of poverty with unconditional monthly payments. Betty Wallace says Manitoba’s Mincome experiment, back in the mid-1970s, enabled her family to buy a second-hand flatbed truck for their farm just outside Dauphin. They still use that truck four decades later. The Richardson family got a new kitchen table and 12-year-old Eric got his first trip to the dentist.
The Wallaces, who had no running water or indoor plumbing in their farmhouse in the 1970s, were able to buy a nearly-new flatbed truck.
Forty years ago, they […]
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