News Release On June 8 during Question Period, Senator Kim Pate asked how the federal government is preparing to implement its commitment to guaranteed livable income in the Missing and Murdered…
Quill & Quire Persistent poverty and stagnant wages. The rise of precarious, unsatisfying work. A job market upended by a global pandemic. Recipients of social-assistance benefits subject to increasing surveillance and suspicion.…
The Star Income supports encourage people to not work? Duh, June 4 In an era of self-regulation, it is presumed that all employers will follow all protocols to ensure the…
Calmatters A Fresno-area politician wants California to prioritize struggling San Joaquin Valley farmworkers in a proposed pilot program that would put cash in the hands of some the state’s impoverished…
Vox It seems like everywhere you look in the US these days, new guaranteed income pilot programs are springing up. Over the past month or so, they’ve launched in Newark, New…
Saltwire It has been a busy time for basic income activism in the territory we now call Canada. The P.E.I. Working Group for a Livable Income is encouraged by the…
The Conversation Wales has become the latest country to explore the idea of a universal basic income, which gives every adult a fixed amount of money, regardless of their employment…
Saltwire Members of the Working Group for a Livable Income (WGLI) were heartened to see the thought and effort the Arbings put into advocating for basic income in P.E.I. (Disjointed…
Guelph Today Many artists were struggling financially even before the pandemic put a halt on most in-person performances, exhibits and gallery spaces. The situation has only grown worse as gathering…
The Toronto Star California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to use a sliver of the state’s massive budget surplus to give poor people money each month with no rules on how…