Canadian social programs were designed for a world in which most people graduated from high school, then found a permanent job with benefits that, barring unforeseen accidents, they would hold until they retired with a pension \u2014 all under the benevolent eye of their workplace union. In the last forty years, however, the labour market has fundamentally changed. Good, full-time jobs have been replaced by part-time or temporary work that pays lower wages, offers fewer benefits and rarely comes with union support. Economic insecurity is now a feature of the lives of large numbers of people. Those forced to rely on provincial income assistance or disability support find themselves trapped in a system that perpetuates dependence.<\/p>\n
This new situation has given new life to an old idea \u2014 basic income. This book explores basic income from a Canadian perspective. It reports on research from the original test in Manitoba in the 1970s to the Ontario initiative launched by the Wynne government, then killed by the Ford Tories.<\/p>\n
The evidence shows that basic income improves family and community health and well being, improves financial resilience, and improves access to education and training \u2014 all at an affordable cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6404,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[227,228,229,230,231,232],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-6403","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-business-economics-economic-conditions","product_cat-political-science-political-economy","product_cat-political-science-public-policy-economic-policy","product_cat-political-science-public-policy-social-security","product_cat-political-science-public-policy-social-services-welfare","product_cat-social-science-social-classes-economic-disparity","pa_contributor-evelyn-l-forget","pa_subjects-social-sciences","pa_subjects-social-sciences-government","pa_subjects-social-sciences-government-federal","desktop-align-left","tablet-align-left","mobile-align-left","ast-product-gallery-layout-horizontal","ast-product-gallery-with-no-image","ast-magnify-disabled","first","instock","shipping-taxable","product-type-external"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorimer.ca\/adults\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/6403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorimer.ca\/adults\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorimer.ca\/adults\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorimer.ca\/adults\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorimer.ca\/adults\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorimer.ca\/adults\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorimer.ca\/adults\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorimer.ca\/adults\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}