In a move likely designed to rattle a few cages this summer, the provincial government’s decision to chop the basic income pilot project came across as a cold reversal of a campaign promise that said the opposite.
The basic income guarantee (BIG) has been around as a concept for decades, but after years of research and a growing civil society movement, it became reality in Ontario in the form of test projects in three regions in the province.
BIG is anything but simple, but as issues like unemployment and poverty, mental illness and disabilities have grown more pronounced in recent years, […]
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