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Poverty cure
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
June 29, 2011
… there is no bigger idea than to advocate for a basic annual income based on a negative income tax… As Senators Hugh Segal and Art Eggleton have suggested, a basic annual income means ensuring that people, regardless of the reasons for their need, receive an income that would keep them above the poverty line. Good social policy should work to alleviate poverty, and thus prevent the associated ills which themselves arrive with other costs we all share -for health care, for policing, for diminished educational outcomes.
Tags: ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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