ABC News Guaranteed income experiments are popping up or expanding around the country, offering no-strings-attached temporary cash payments to low-income residents. Some governmental programs limit what recipients can or cannot pay…
The Lindsay Advocate The death of Hugh Segal a few weeks ago reminded the country there really did exist another breed of politician. The kind of politician who might carry…
CBC News Waterloo Coun. Jen Vasic says there's growing income inequality in the city that's impacting the community as a whole and a guaranteed livable basic income program would help…
The Guardian The widely held stereotype that people experiencing homelessness would be more likely to spend extra cash on drugs, alcohol and “temptation goods” has been upended by a study…
Newstalk 610 Niagara Falls city council wants the federal and provincial government to look into the concept of a basic income. Council agreed to motion from Councillor Lori Lococo this…
Campbell River Mirror To North Island-Powell River MP Rachel Blaney, a solution to helping seniors meet their needs would be to set up a federal Guaranteed Livable Basic Income (GLBI)…
The Guardian La-Kingya Singleton almost didn’t answer the call. It was after 5pm and from an 800- phone number. “I thought it was a robocall,” she said. But it wasn’t.…
The Spec Four years ago, we interviewed Hugh Segal for a book on basic income. He was being treated for the disease that ended his life last week. Typical of Hugh’s…
Scientific American When the child tax credit, first established in 1997, was expanded for a year in 2021, it was a major political and social win for the country. At…
Karl Widerquist According to Henry David Thoreau, “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” I think it’s more accurate to say the mass of people lead lives of manufactured desperation.…