The universal basic income (UBI) idea is back in a big way in Canada.
An Angus Reid poll in June showed that 59 per cent of Canadians were in favour of some variation on a basic income.
A Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) study released this week showed that the cost of a basic income of $16,689 per year ($24,027 for couples) would cost Canada between $47.5 and $98 billion for the last six months of the fiscal year.And of course, a lot of us have now had experience with an emergency basic income – a huge number of households have at […]
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