I read with interest Dr. Trevor Hancock’s article, “Reducing the cost of inequality,” in which he argued that poverty in Canada is now so expensive we cannot afford it. 1 Public health teaches us that tackling poor health outcomes ascribed to poverty — particularly those faced by Indigenous people — necessitates acting on upstream causes of inequality. As Dr. Hancock notes, public health is naturally eyeing innovative policies like the guaranteed income (or basic income guarantee) to improve health and offset the exorbitant costs of poverty.
As a negative income tax, a basic income guarantee works like this: if your […]
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