Ontario dramatically shut down its highly publicized basic experiment on July 31.
The province had been paying 4,000 people around $17,000 CAD (around $13,073.68 USD) a year or $1,416.67 CAD (roughly $1,118.06 USD) a month. The idea was to test basic income in places like Thunder Bay and Hamilton.
The test was supposed to run for three years but Ontario’s new Minister of Children, Community, and Social Services suddenly shut it down. The cancellation was announced a month after Conservative Doug Ford became Ontario’s premier, Fast Company reported .Hypocritically, Ford had promised to not cancel the test on the campaign trail. […]
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