Halpenny: Youth voices are needed in the basic income debate

Halpenny: Youth voices are needed in the basic income debate

With arduous debt loads, students could use the help of a basic guaranteed income to help them complete their studies. In April, Conservative Sen. Claude Carignan made a comment in the red chamber that should make young people from coast-to-coast-to-coast furious.

Pointing to the supposed work disincentives of benefits such as the Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB) or The Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), the senator described a scenario in which students did not pursue summer jobs, but were instead “hanging out by the pool, most likely at their parents’ house.”

As a recent graduate with pool-less parents, I think something […]

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