Yuen Pau Woo: The study of basic income, which was not

Yuen Pau Woo: The study of basic income, which was not

From Yuen Pau Woo

When the British Columbia government announced in 2018 that it had appointed an expert group to “test the feasibility of a basic income in British Columbia”, advocates had high expectations that the results would be final.

It turned out that the report, published in early 2021, had reached a final conclusion, not what the defenders hoped for. Asked whether BC should move to basic income as a central element in its transfer payment system, the authors are adamant: “Our answer is no.”The report’s findings are well-argued, but not clear. Relying heavily on a certain concept of […]

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