Reading Time: 4 minutes The need for income security among middle-class Canadians is accelerating as the labour market changes
Author: Evelyn Forget
Evelyn L. Forget is an economist, professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba and Academic Director of the Manitoba Research Data Centre. She is an adjunct scientist with the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and a research associate with the MB First Nations Centre for Aboriginal Health Research. Her work has been funded by CIHR, SSHRC and NIH, and she has consulted for provincial and federal government departments, First Nations and NGOs. Her current research focuses on the health and social consequences of antipoverty interventions and the cost-effectiveness of healthcare interventions.
Turning away from a valuable social experiment
Reading Time: 3 minutes The abrupt cancellation of Ontario’s basic income project has broad impact on international research, as well as devastating participants
Key piece of international basic income analysis has been eliminated
Reading Time: 3 minutes An open letter to Premier Doug Ford and Minister Lisa MacLeod concerning the cancellation of the Ontario basic income pilot
Finally time for a Guaranteed Annual Income
Reading Time: 4 minutes But what exactly is a Guaranteed Annual Income?