Basic Income basics: No, it’s not impossible

Basic Income basics: No, it’s not impossible

Share this story Evelyn Forget at Basic Income Earth Network conference in 2018, photo: Andre Coelho

Evelyn Forget has quite literally written the book on basic income for Canadians. It called Basic Income for Canadians .

As a health economist at the University of Manitoba, Forget re-discovered the Manitoba Mincome experiment of the 1970s, and undertook to analyze some 1800 cubic feet of data from the decades-old experiment. She found evidence of improved health and high school completion, and even an overall improved sense of community in the town of Dauphin, the one and only saturation site for the Mincome […]

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