THUNDER BAY – LIVING – Community members, injured workers, social assistance recipients and front-line social service agency workers are calling on the Province to make an immediate billion dollar investment to raise the rates for the 1 in 15 people surviving on social assistance in Ontario.This call has been made at consultations on a Basic Income pilot project in Sudbury, Hamilton and Toronto.
As the province contemplates implementing a basic income, where individuals would be guaranteed a minimum yearly income to address systemic poverty, social assistance recipients and their allies have been rightly pointing out that they cannot wait years […]
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