Instituting a guaranteed minimum income program in Canada is guaranteed to be controversial and complicated. But its upsides, if instituted with financial responsibility, could be significant, because providing a base level of financial livability for families and individuals and eliminating the multi-layered bureaucracies administering government social safety net programs today would contribute to the country’s overall social and economic well-being.
Proposals for government guarantees of a minimum level of income for its citizenry dates as far back at least to Thomas Paine and the American Revolution. But, as with so many of today’s economic, human resource and social issues, the […]
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