Basic income plan takes shape

Basic income plan takes shape

Brigitte Petersen Karen Glass, assistant deputy minister of the poverty reduction division for the Ministry of Community and Social Services, fields questions during an information session about the Ontario Basic Income Pilot study at the West Thunder Community Centre in Thunder Bay on Thursday evening.

The city and its surrounding area were recently selected to take part in the project to assess whether a basic income can better support vulnerable workers and improve health and education outcomes for people on low incomes. The study targets the working poor, unemployed people and homeless individuals. About 70 per cent of people living […]

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