Premier Kathleen Wynne announced the details of the province’s three-year project during a speech in Hamilton on April 24. (File) By Réal Filion
The government of Ontario has initiated a pilot project of distributing a guaranteed minimum income to 4,000 randomly selected Ontarians in three different communities (a little less than $17,000 for a single individual).
Ontario thus joins a growing number of jurisdictions taking seriously an idea that has been around for some time: Ensuring a universal basic income to all.This is a simple idea whose relevance and salience is beginning to take shape in many parts of the […]
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