Amid growing concern that technological advancements in automation and artificial intelligence could put millions of people out of work, countries have taken increasing interest in the possibility of universal basic income programs as a way to stabilize their economies.
With automation already cutting into demand for both manual laborers and office workers as the ranks of the "working poor" swell, experiments to provide guaranteed income regardless of employment status have been conducted in some countries. Canada is one of them.
The Canadian province of Ontario is nearing the end of a pilot program in which it supplied over 4,000 participants with […]
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