Colby Cosh: Universal basic income is a recipe for fiscal suicide (for so many reasons)

Colby Cosh: Universal basic income is a recipe for fiscal suicide (for so many reasons)

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Earlier this month, a cross-border team of North American economists published the results of a landmark study, probably the best and most careful yet done, of how low-income workers respond to an unconditional guaranteed income . Not so long ago this would have been a plus-sized news item in narcissistic Canada, for the lead author of the study is a rising economics star at the University of Toronto, Eva Vivalt. The economists, working through non-profit groups, recruited 3,000 people below a certain income cutoff in the suburbs of Dallas and Chicago. A thousand […]

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