Open this photo in gallery: Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction Shane Simpson speaks at a news conference in Victoria on Oct. 30, 2017. The B.C. government is studying Ontario’s experiment with basic income – but it will not wait for the results before launching its own trial as part of a new poverty-reduction plan.
This spring, Ontario began a pilot project with 4,000 randomly chosen residents in three cities to test the merits of a publicly funded basic-income guarantee for the poor.
The goal is to reduce poverty by ensuring that individuals and families have enough money to live […]
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