Ontario will test idea of a guaranteed minimum income to ease poverty

Ontario will test idea of a guaranteed minimum income to ease poverty
By: Keith Leslie, The Canadian Press
Posted: 03/13/2016 9:01 AM |
TORONTO - A single paragraph buried in the Ontario budget could mean big changes in the lives of some of the province's most impoverished residents by giving them a guaranteed minimum income.
Last month's provincial budget promised a pilot project to test "that a basic income could build on the success of minimum wage policies and increases in child benefits by providing more consistent and predictable support."

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