(Photo: Michelle Spollen/Unsplash) In late April, as the COVID-19 crisis wore mercilessly on, bishops from the Anglican and Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Canada wrote a surprising open letter to the prime minister in which they expressed with one voice that Canada needs guaranteed basic income for all. More than 40 bishops from these churches signed the letter, and their efforts represent an earnest response to what is a growing crisis within Canada at this time.
COVID-19 has revealed the necessity of a minimum income. Those whose lives were already precarious have experienced greater risk due to the illness, increased vulnerability […]
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