Ontario to try giving poor a basic income Image copyright Getty Images Canada’s largest province is experimenting with giving poor people a basic income with no strings attached.
The three-year study will test whether this basic income is better than current social welfare programmes.
Randomly selected participants living in three communities in Ontario will be given at least C$16,989 ($12,600, £9,850) a year to live on.Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne said it is time to be "bold" in figuring out how to help society’s most vulnerable."This is no time to retreat, this is no time for government to cling to the status […]
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