THAT WAS FAST. 4,000 people in Ontario just lost what they thought was a guaranteed source of income for the next two years.
In April 2017, the Canadian province launched a trial of basic income, a program in which a government regularly pays its citizens a set amount of money, no strings attached. Ontario’s was the first government-backed basic income trial in North America since the 1970s, but on Tuesday, it scrapped the program a full two years before its scheduled end.
PARTY POLITICS. Why did it end? Politics might have something to do with it. When the C$150 million […]
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