Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project

• Reality check: does social assistance disincentivize people from working?

  Evidence supporting basic income has existed for decades, so why does the idea that it disincentivizes people from working persist?

  Features

  Aug 2, 2018
  
• Ontario Tories to scrap basic income pilot, reduce planned increase to social assistance rates

  Lisa MacLeod, Minister of Children, Community and Social Services, says the previous Liberal government left behind a patchwork system that the Progressive Conservatives will replace.

  Canada

  Jul 31, 2018
  
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• A little late for Wynne pilot projects

  Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has announced a pilot project introducing a basic income in the test cities of Hamilton, Thunder Bay, and the town of Lindsay.

  Commentary

  Apr 25, 2017