Social and anti-poverty activists have greeted the dumping of Ontario’s basic income pilot project with the usual lamentations . These critics of the new Conservative government argue the funds allocated to the project is a pittance compared to the costs of poverty, and we have missed out on learning about the impact of a basic income.
I disagree. The pilot needed to stop. As someone who consulted on the project, I believe it had core design flaws that mitigated against ever answering questions about basic income.
These shortcomings do not reflect badly on the team that developed and worked on the […]
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