By Braden Bristow | Image by Christina Tran November 28, 2023 Universal basic income (UBI) is the application of the radical, and somewhat devious, idea that citizens, for some reason, deserve to have their basic needs met.
UBI is a measure in which the government makes cash transfers to each citizen with a guaranteed basic amount. This idea has made such waves that it has now been tabled in the Canadian Senate.
The appropriately titled National Framework for a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income Act was under consideration by the standing senate committee on national finance, as of Nov. 27. Should this […]
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