Ontario’s Bold Basic Income Experiment Creates High Expectations

Ontario's Bold Basic Income Experiment Creates High Expectations

The Mendowegan and Segura families are participants in Ontario’s basic income pilot project. Sherry Mendowegan has accomplished a lot in the past six months. The mother-of-two bought her first vehicle and graduated with her high school diploma in March.

"Next is my college, post-secondary, and then hopefully I get some work," she told HuffPost Canada.

Going to college would have been out of reach for Mendowegan even last year. But as a participant in Ontario’s basic income pilot program, she and her husband, Dan, can now afford the tuition. She starts at Thunder Bay’s Confederation College in September to study office […]

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