The Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce is urging the province to study the idea of a guaranteed minimum income. (Chris Wattie/Reuters)
Winnipeg’s largest business organization wants the province to further study guaranteed minimum income as a way to drive down Manitoba’s poverty levels.
The Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce released a poverty reduction strategy Wednesday, saying the province should conduct a new five-year minimum income pilot project like the one done in Dauphin, Man., in the 1970s."Minimum income supports the concept that all work has value, including non-paid work," the strategy says."People have been taking on those roles without pay and some may […]
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