Basic guaranteed income could reduce poverty

Direct cash grants to individuals can have a major positive impact on poverty and health.
Minister of Families, Children, and Social Development Jean-Yves Duclos is in the early stages of developing a poverty reduction strategy.
Oct. 17 is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Unfortunately, Canadians have come to accept that poverty is inevitable. Is this true? Actually, we can indeed make poverty history. The costs to our economy and well-being are too significant to do otherwise. Next to the weather, he...

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