Premier Ford says the way out of poverty is "something called a job", but 70 percent of Basic Income participants already had jobs and were still living in poverty.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford was in Thunder Bay last week. T-Bay, like Hamilton, Brantford and Lindsay, have been sites for the Ontario Basic Income pilot project and local participants have been reeling from the late summer announcement that the Conservative government would break their election promise and cut short the three-year research project.
The program was intended to test the idea that providing a stable financial foundation for people on low incomes […]
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