[Opinion] The Quebec basic income and the future of social solidarity

1 er next January, a first form of basic income will come into effect in Quebec. This result dates back to an initiative of the Couillard government, which passed a law on this subject in the National Assembly on May 15, 2018. The deployment of this basic income initially provided for a 40% increase in benefits for people with severe and long-term employment restrictions, increase spread over five years. The goal was to allow approximately 84,000 people to achieve an income placing them at the level of the Market Basket Measure (MBM), the benchmark index for poverty in the […]

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