Universal basic income: Does the COVID-19 pandemic shed light on the idea of a guaranteed minimum income?

Universal basic income: Does the COVID-19 pandemic shed light on the idea of a guaranteed minimum income?

Sir Thomas More wrote about a basic income as early as 1516

Recent polls by the Pew Research Center show that 88% of Canadians think our governments have done a “good job” with the COVID-19 crisis. In part, this may be because the Canadian government recognized early on that one of the real danger points in the pandemic was a possible loss of consumer confidence. If people believed they were going to be in financial trouble, they would stop spending, start hoarding, and leave their dollars in the banks – all of which could trigger a broader collapse of […]

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