A B.C. government-commissioned report dismissed the idea of a basic income, much to the disappointment of some antipoverty advocates.
By Yuen Pau Woo
When the British Columbia government announced in 2018 that it had appointed an expert panel to “test the feasibility of a basic income in B.C.”, there were high expectations among advocates that the results would be definitive.As it turned out, the report released in early 2021 year did land on a definitive conclusion, just not the one that advocates were hoping for. To the question of whether B.C. should move to a basic income […]
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