Ontario basic income pilot project to launch in Hamilton, Lindsay and Thunder Bay
The ministers have been spearheading the province’s effort to experiment with basic income. The strategy for reducing poverty involves “a system of automatic transfers for those beneath an income threshold,” according to a discussion paper on the topic commissioned by Wynne and the ministers last summer. The province has said it will launch the pilot project providing money to low-income households with no strings attached. “We have people in Hamilton, 7,000 of them, waking up today, they earn about $7,000 a year — I bet a […]
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