Ontario has announced some of the details of its pilot project for a guaranteed basic income, which would see 4,000 selected low-income recipients in Thunder Bay, Hamilton and Lindsay receive monthly cheques to supplement their income for the next three years. The payments will max out at nearly $17,000 for a single person, about 75 per cent of the province’s low-income measure, commonly referred to as the poverty line.
(The cheques will be also reduced by $1 for every $2 earned by recipients, so someone earning more than $34,000 won’t see any money.)
Quebec, which has also said it wants to […]
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