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The Nova Scotia office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives designed this living wage infographic to highlight what a person needs to make per hour to cover every day basics.With Zoom, a person can sit in on all kinds of thought-provoking discussions. Recently I took part listening in on a forum organized by the Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement.
Raising awareness, broadening support and looking at political will among all levels of government could allow for a regional focus to proceed.In Prince Edward Island, an all-party committee of the Legislative Assembly has already recommended a fully-funded, province-wide basic income be implemented.
In October, he announced a new targeted basic income program for youth participating in the residential services program. It will serve approximately 300 youth. Health economist Evelyn Forget, a professor at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, told the CBC that basic income would replace welfare and ideally cut out a lot of the complicated red tape.
In Ottawa these days, the Green Party supports a guaranteed livable income program and so does the NDP. The Liberal Party hasn’t made any commitments, but there is deemed to be strong support from within the party. The other two parties haven’t said much. No surprise there…
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