Job guarantee program could bolster economy more than basic income, says author

Job guarantee program could bolster economy more than basic income, says author

‘We really need a transitional program, we need some sort of guarantee that folks that are searching for work can find it,’ says professor and author Pavlina Tcherneva. (David Ryder/Bloomberg) 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 […]

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