Basic income can’t be ignored: Vatican expert

Basic income can’t be ignored: Vatican expert

Catholics must promote policies that reduce poverty, promote social mobility, and result in distributive justice, Vatican economic adviser Charles Clark told a Toronto audience Oct. 20. (Michael Swan / CCN) TORONTO (CCN)—A basic income guarantee, such as the pilot project currently running in three Ontario communities, is not an infallible teaching of the Catholic Church, but it can’t be dismissed, one of the Vatican’s top economic advisors told an interfaith conference on basic income.

“There’s no Catholic economic policy,” conceded economist Charles Clark in a keynote address to about 40 academics and basic income advocates at the University of St. […]

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