3:37 Coronavirus: Economic crunch time for Canadians … Is it time to start considering a basic income — universal or otherwise — in Canada, too? As typically conceived, basic-income programs are meant to provide a financial safety net, with no obligations and without the bureaucracy and associated administrative costs of means-tested benefits. UBI is both an important topic in its own right and a useful lens for examining recurrent virtues and vices in projects of partial decommodification and universal provision. Some 125 residents in Marin County, Calif., can expect to begin receiving payments of $1,000 a month starting in […]
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