Income security cannot wait: it’s time to support Bill S-233

Senators should support the National Framework for a Guaranteed Liveable Basic Income Act as a step towards alleviating poverty.

Independent Senator Kim Pate’s public bill could dramatically remedy financial insecurity, which is a key social determinant of health and mental health, write Tracy Smith-Carrier, Lauren Touchant, and Chris Hergesheimer.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TRACY SMITH-CARRIER, LAUREN TOUCHANT, CHRIS HERGESHEIMER

March 25, 2024

We are living in tremendously challenging times. The crippling cost-of-living situation reveals an increasingly troubling polycrisis in this country.

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