San Francisco Launches Guaranteed Income for Transgender People Program
The Pride San Francisco has launched a pilot program that guarantees income for transgender residents. The Guaranteed Income for Transgender People (GIFT) will provide 55
Stretched: How high grocery prices are forcing Canadians to adapt and get creative
CBC News Many Canadians have seen their finances stretched as the price of groceries continues to rise. As of December 2022, the cost of food had
Ottawa councillor speaks up for basic income
CityNews Alta Vista City Councillor Marty Carr believes dealing with food insecurity in Ottawa is a problem that needs to be tackled by all levels
Saint John Council Says Guaranteed Basic Income Would Help Struggling Citizens
Huddle Deputy Mayor John MacKenzie’s motion calling on the city to ask the federal and provincial government for a “guaranteed livable basic income” got unanimous
How Tacoma’s yearlong guaranteed income experiment fared
Seattle Times When the pandemic hit in 2020, Debbie Wilkerson decided to retire early from her job at Jack-in-the-Box. But it wasn’t really by choice,
The U.S. Could Help Solve Its Poverty Problem with a Universal Basic Income
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
The Current with Matt Galloway: Featuring Evelyn Forget on the Basic Income movement
Matt Galloway talks to health economist Evelyn Forget, who has advanced anti-poverty policies across Canada and around the world; Michael Schmidt, a photographer and geophysicist
2022 brought income lifeline for artists with pilot scheme
RTE “It was during Covid that the sense of ‘precarious living’ really landed.” Eoghan Carrick is a freelance theatre director, who also works as a
N.B. makes no headway on poverty by treating symptoms, says economist
CBC Poverty in New Brunswick could be basically eliminated for about $1 billion, says the Vaughan chair in regional economics at the University of New
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“I support the idea of a basic income guarantee for everyone in Canada.” “Je soutiens l’idée d’un revenu de base garanti pour tous au Canada.”
