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Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday April 25 2017, @08:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the OBIPP? dept.

butthurt writes:

The Liberal premier of Ontario announced details of the Ontario Basic Income Pilot. The provincial government issued a press release saying

Three regions will take part in the study. Pilots will start in late spring in Hamilton, including Brantford and Brant County; and in Thunder Bay and the surrounding area. The third pilot will start by this fall [autumn] in Lindsay.

The Basic Income model Ontario has developed will ensure that eligible participants receive:

        Up to $16,989 per year for a single person, less 50 per cent of any earned income
        Up to $24,027 per year for a couple, less 50 per cent of any earned income
        Up to an additional $6,000 per year for a person with a disability.

[...] The three test regions will host 4,000 participants eligible to receive a basic income payment, between the ages of 18 to 64. By late spring, people in these areas will begin receiving information about the pilot and how to participate. The province is partnering with these communities and other experts to make sure that the Ontario Basic Income Pilot is fair, effective, and scientifically valid.

additional coverage:

related story:
Ontario is Starting a Universal Basic Income Pilot

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday April 25 2017, @09:43PM (2 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday April 25 2017, @09:43PM (#499616)

    This soylentbob sounds like an ass..

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by edIII on Tuesday April 25 2017, @10:02PM (1 child)

    by edIII (791) on Tuesday April 25 2017, @10:02PM (#499625)

    They mostly are.

    I've had unfortunate experiences in my life around executives. Arguments about how the employees are only there to fuck them. From their perspective, it was already an Us. Vs. Them deal.

    What pissed me off was watching them drink alcohol during work hours while actively railing against how much water the girls in a call center were drinking. In a desert. Talking 8 hours a day.

    Yep. A couple hundred dollars (a day or two of lunch expenses) was too much to spend on those hard working women each *month*. They can bring in their own extra water, paid for by themselves.

    That's why I'm so pissed all the time. Workers consistently denied what they need to survive, consistently denied any real chances for advancement, consistently denied workplace safety, and basically consistently denied any time they ask for more. Even though they work for it. Every single day, they work hard enough to deserve dignity.

    That SoylentBob isn't just an asshole. He is bound for a spike in hell because of how he treated his brothers and sisters, and how he took so much during his life and never gave back shit.

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