Basic income ‘unlocked dozens of doors for me,’ supporter says amid call for national program

CBC News Basic income was life-changing for Jessica Topfer. The Cannington, Ont. resident was a student at Trent University in 2017 when then-premier Kathleen Wynne's government launched the largest basic income…

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‘It’s Basic’ Points To A Strikingly Straightforward Plan To Fight Poverty

Huff Post While economic inequality may seem like an ever-mounting obstacle, more and more communities are experimenting with a long-tested, but often dismissed, idea to combat poverty. Emmy-winning filmmaker Marc…

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Canada is considering a guaranteed universal basic income program. Here’s what that means

Toronto Star Canada is taking its baby steps toward a basic income program meant to broadly address poverty. The Senate’s national finance committee began looking into Sen. Kim Pate’s proposal…

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Universal basic income improved lives in rural Canada when they tried it in the ’70s. Here’s why the program got scrapped.

Business Insider For four years in the late 1970s, Canada's Manitoba province ran a program called the Manitoba Basic Annual Income Experiment, or MINCOME. It was a guaranteed annual income…

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