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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:
- Canoe (editorial)
- The Globe and Mail
- globalnews.ca
- The Guardian
- Business Insider
- BBC News
- Canadian Press via City News
- Reuters via NASDAQ
- Toronto Star
- CHCH-TV
- CBC
- CNN Money
related story:
Ontario is Starting a Universal Basic Income Pilot
(Score: 4, Informative) by mhajicek on Tuesday April 25 2017, @11:27PM
In 1790, about 90% of workers were employed in agriculture. Now it's about 1.5%. Robots are doing most of the agricultural work with guidance from a handful of agricultural technicians. The same trends are happening in other industries too, just a bit slower / later.
Example: I'm a machinist. I sit at my desk all day and prepare programs for the machine to run. With one machine (robot) and one human assistant I get done in a day what would have taken weeks a few decades ago. That's with a fairly entry-level 5 axis CNC. If I wanted to quadruple my output and had the funding to do so, I could either buy three more of the same machine and hope I can find three more skilled assistants (unlikely), or I could put all the money into one high-end machine with a pallet pool and large tool index and run it with just me and my assistant, and it would be capable of running unattended for days at a time. The latter option would be much more reliable, and by far the better business decision.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek