Winnipeg business group pushes province to look at guaranteed income

Winnipeg business group pushes province to look at guaranteed income

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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