DANIELLE CAMERON Basic Grinches. A staff report on poverty reduction recommends Halifax hold off on endorsing a basic income pilot project from the province.
The municipality’s Community Planning and Economic Standing Committee asked for the report back in July after a presentation from Basic Income Nova Scotia .
At the time, the group had suggested some minor steps HRM could take towards supporting a basic income project in the province; including declaring public support for the idea, encouraging other municipalities to do the same and offering to co-fund a feasibility study with the Nova Scotian government.All of those measures, BINS said, […]
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