Trevor Hancock: ‘Mincome’ is pro-health and against poverty

Last week, I wrote about the health, social and economic benefits of a poverty-reduction plan for B.C. Not unreasonably, a reader challenged me to explain how we could afford that.

“Just what price tag would you set on the actions you propose?” he wrote. “Then we could move on to that tricky part about how well — or if — the plan works.” Fair enough, so here goes.

I wrote about the costs in my column on Jan. 7, 2015. As that is more than two years ago, I will repeat some of it here.In a 2011 report, the Canadian Centre […]

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