Three-year proposal is set to launch this spring and will give participants a guaranteed salary. Toronto’s Pauline Bryant, who has been active in the fight to get Ontario to raise welfare rates, says a three-year pilot project to study guaranteed income does nothing for people who need help now. A proposed provincial pilot project to replace Ontario’s poverty-level welfare payments and top-up low-wage workers with a no-strings-attached basic income received a thumbs-up during recent online and public consultations.
Ontarians are also keen to know whether this type of support would impact health, housing, food and work habits, according to a […]
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