While an all-party committee on poverty is reviewing what a basic income guarantee could look like on P.E.I., a suggestion by a Charlottetown social justice group is going one step further with a job guarantee program.
A member of the MacKillop Centre for Social Justice pitched members of P.E.I.’s special committee on poverty on the idea that a job guarantee program would do more than a basic income guarantee to combat the root causes of poverty.
Pavlina Tcherneva is an associate professor of economics at Bard College in New York, who recently published a book titled, The Case for a Job […]
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