Reading Time: 4 minutes Breaking the welfare trap begins by reforming Canada’s Workers Benefit
Tag: Guaranteed annual income
How artificial intelligence will change our world
Reading Time: 6 minutes The core technologies involved in AI are moving at breakneck speed
A guaranteed annual income is complicated
Reading Time: 3 minutes Richard Nixon and Pat Moynihan had a plan to end poverty. In the end, it was far too complicated, and languished and died
Why a Canadian basic income is inevitable
Reading Time: 4 minutes The need for income security among middle-class Canadians is accelerating as the labour market changes
We’re winning the war on poverty
Reading Time: 4 minutes The proportion of households below the LICO has been falling for two decades and is now at its lowest level ever at 7.8 per cent
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
Unconditional basic income is a bad idea
Reading Time: 4 minutes Such a program would weaken the incentives to work for lower-income Canadians and people not strongly tied to the labour force
Quest for equality must first address poverty, childcare
Reading Time: 3 minutes Too many people are one job loss, one illness, one retirement or one calamity away from disaster. We need income security
Just who’s the bully when it comes to minimum wage hikes?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Government generally has little or no understanding of franchising, how food distribution forces play out or even simply how small businesses operate