Ontario’s basic income pilot project was designed to put money into the pockets of marginalized people who could not afford dental work, prescription medications and to and from work transportation, says a new survey.
BICN designed its survey to make up for the government’s “very unfortunate missed opportunity” to study the impact of Ontario’s pilot. BICN is an advocacy group that supports the idea of a government-funded basic income available to all citizens.
Ontario’s previous Liberal government launched the experiment in 2017 which saw individuals and couples got up to $17,000 and $24,000 a year, respectively, to supplement low incomes or […]
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