Last year, shortly after conservative Doug Ford was elected to lead the Canadian province of Ontario, the government canceled the revolutionary basic income pilot it had been running since 2017 . The program, which gave 4,000 low-income Ontarians up to C$17,000 a year, was testing the idea of giving people unconditional cash payments. Its sudden cancellation created enormous problems . For the people who were enrolled in the program, the payments they expected to receive for three years were cut short after one, and they were left scrambling to make new financial plans. And for the basic income movement […]
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