Social work involves a response to dire circumstances including illness, addiction, crime, exclusion, and homelessness. Not surprisingly, all of these states have been shown to be exacerbated by poverty. While many social and personal circumstances no doubt interact to contribute to unique experiences of struggle, it is clear that, across all identities, these struggles would in most, if not all, cases, be alleviated if individuals knew they could trust in a dependable source of income.
I see Basic Income, as proposed through the Ontario Basic Income Pilot, as a levelling agent, though not in a strictly monetary sense. Arguably, the […]
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