Why Ontario was right to cancel the basic income project: Crowley and Speer in Sun papers

Why Ontario was right to cancel the basic income project: Crowley and Speer in Sun papers

As we begin to recover from this pandemic, the last form of intervention we need is to discourage people from pursuing new opportunities and jobs, writes Jack Mintz.

Canada’s COVID-19 economic coma provides a new, grand experiment to understand the implications of a guaranteed basic income on the willingness to work. Numerous advocates of a guaranteed basic income are now calling for the enhanced benefits currently deployed as an emergency measure, to extend past the crisis in the form of a guaranteed income.

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