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Political and other news and commentary relevant to basic income and income security, unemployment etc.
- BIEN Newsflashes: http://www.basicincome.org/bien/news.html
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Livable4All "The solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Chaos or Community, 1967
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http://livableincome.org - Guy Standing's 25th Anniversary Note, September 4, 2021
- Blog of Citizens for Public Justice: www.cpj.ca/blog
- Elizabeth May, Green Party of Canada, House of Commons question on universal unconditional GAI/GLI, June 20, 2021 (Hansard)
- Canadian Economics Association annual conference, "The Town Without Poverty" - Special Lecture/Conférence spéciale, June 2011
- How to *Really* Get Tough on Crime: Tough on poverty, tough on crime (by conservative senator Hugh Segal) and Solving crime? Tackle the root causes first
- The Globe and Mail, "Let’s refocus on a guaranteed annual income" January 19, 2022
- Montreal Gazette, "Guaranteed income: an idea worth rethinking" November 27, 2021
- The Globe and Mail, "To end poverty, guarantee everyone in Canada $20,000 a year. But are you willing to trust the poor?" November 19, 2021
- EAPN: http://www.adequateincome.eu
- Reginald Stackhouse, “An income for all Canadians” February 17, 2022
NDP Yukon calls for GAI
CANADA: Yukon government urged to implement a basic income
The leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) in Yukon (one of Canada's three Federal territories), Steve Cardiff, has put forward a notice of motion for the Yukon Government to introduce a Guaranteed Minimum Annual Income Allowance. According to the official report from Yukon's legislative assembly, he urged "the Yukon government to implement a guaranteed minimum annual income allowance for all eligible Yukon citizens as recommended by Conservative Party Senator Hugh Segal, the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, the Macdonald Commission, the National Council of Welfare, the Special Senate Committee on Poverty and the federal working paper on social security, which would:
- expand human dignity;
- end poverty;
- save on the costs of hospitals, prisons and police work;
- eliminate or significantly reduce the burden on the social assistance system;
- be recoverable through the personal income tax systems for those earning over a certain amount; and
- simplify administration and reduce administrative costs."
Further information: www.legassembly.gov.yk.ca
From: http://www.basicincome.org/bien/pdf/Flash63.pdf and http://www.basicincome.org/bien/news.html (Issue 63, November 2010)