[NEWS] Six links about guaranteed minimum income in Ontario (#onpoli)

[rfmcdonald]

• This article at Vice's Motherboard took a look at how an Ontarian provincial experiment with guaranteed minimum income has been helping people in Hamilton.


• Laurie Monsebraaten reported back in February how guaranteed minimum income was making a hugely positive difference for its recipients, over at the Toronto Star.


• Global News considered if guaranteed minimum income might make a big difference in British Columbia.


• Looking at the post-industrial town of Lindsay, Brian Bergstein at Technology Review suggested minimum income could have a hugely transformative effect if implemented elsewhere as it was here.


• Jordan Pearson warned at Motherboard that, compared to Mincome in the 1970s, the experiments being run in Ontario and Finland involved too few people receiving too little money to be necessarily informative. Were they being run to fail?


• Besides halving a planned 3% increase in welfare payments, to keep pace with inflation, the new Ontario government of Doug Ford has scrapped the guaranteed minimum income experiment. The Toronto Star reports.

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[dewline]

Because he's got to keep all of us prey-people vulnerable.