Universal basic income (UBI) has gone from an outlandish concept to the mainstream for one reason: Covid-19.
Just a few weeks ago, former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang campaigned on UBI. This week, U.S. senator Mitt Romney proposed sending every American a one-time $1000 cheque during the pandemic, and even stalwartly conservative activists have voiced support for the idea.
This comes as no surprise to Dr. Evelyn Forget, a health economist and professor at the University of Manitoba. In the 1970s, Canada’s then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Manitoba’s NDP government ran the Mincome project in Dauphin, Manitoba , an experimental pilot […]
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