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Alberta, Canada
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Interesting! The author talks about solutions like #livingwages, more affordable housing and strengthening Canada's social safety net with a #basicincome.
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"For anyone coming of age after 1990, today’s high cost of living is a wholly new and disturbing experience. That covers the entire Millennial and Gen Z generations." thestar.com/business/opinion… via @torontostar
Basic Income Alberta retweeted
Canadians are speaking up for Basic Income Bill #S233, which is 1 vote away from Third Reading.
This week, we mobilized thousands of advocates across Canada to write & call the Senate Committee on National Finance.
Here are a some of their personal letters to the senators:
Basic Income Alberta retweeted
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We're excited to host Dr. Guy Standing, co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network and a leading voice for the commons and the precariat.
Standing's work has influenced advocates, policymakers, and economists the world over to recognize the mass plunder of our natural, social, civil, cultural, and knowledge commons. We live in a runaway rentier economy where owning property makes more money than hard work; where more and more income goes to those who own assets, and less and less to those who perform labour.
One answer, Standing believes, is to establish a system of Common Capital Funds, financed by charging levies on the commons, to pay common dividends to all citizens.
If you support basic income, housing, and fair and equal economic opportunity, this virtual event is for you.
RSVP Here:
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Austin, Texas experimented with giving people $1,000 a month. They said they spent the no-strings-attached cash mostly on housing.
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Advancements on Basic Income in Canada: 2023 and Beyond
Join this webinar to learn about important developments in the basic income movement in Canada.
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A study by San Francisco-based nonprofit Miracle Messages and the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. "Their findings are the latest piece of evidence showing the benefits of a basic income plan."
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In case you haven't seen Coalition Canada Basic Income's series on The Case for Basic Income:
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#basicincome #foodsecurity #health #fisheries #agriculture #homelessness #houselessness #thearts
Basic income could reduce the number of children in care, improve outcomes for those transitioning out of the care system, and help sever the relationship between intergenerational trauma and poverty.
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#basicincome #childwelfare #childpoverty #trauma
Implementing a basic income means overcoming myths about the ‘undeserving poor.'
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Basic Income Alberta retweeted
🧵Everyone deserves dignity, food on the table, and a safe place to call home. A guaranteed, livable #BasicIncome would help grow the economy, create jobs, and lift people out of poverty—and we have a big opportunity to make it a reality ⤵️
Report: Proposing a Guaranteed Basic Income for PEI
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Guaranteed basic income could cut poverty on P.E.I. by 80%: report
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Lee Stevens (@leeandreacoward) from @VibrantCalgary will be on @630CHED Afternoons with @BrynMightyMouth to discuss the cost of living in Alberta and why we need a guaranteed basic income.
Tune in Thursday, Nov. 16 at 2:30pm on 630 CHED.
“It’s just basic justice that people have enough money to survive and to ensure that people aren’t living in poverty in a wealthy country."
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Basic Income Alberta retweeted
Today, the Senate National Finance Committee delved into Bill S-233, which called for the implementation of a national framework on guaranteed livable basic income.
Don't miss our highlights video:
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Basic Income Alberta retweeted
Support is growing to establish a guaranteed livable basic income in Canada. Send a message to key Senators to call for this much-needed policy #basicincome #Canada #UBI @votelau @basicincomecdn @BasicBc @ubi_works @BasicIncomeAB @BasicManitoba : act.leadnow.ca/GLBI-senate/?…
"In April 2021, the Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux estimated a guaranteed basic income program that provided nearly $17,000 per year for low-income households would cut poverty rates in half..."
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"Critics of guaranteed annual income often cite its cost as a barrier, but for Forget, the communal cost of poverty outweighs that of a universal basic income."
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