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How Basic Income Helps Canada’s Economy

 
 

Basic Income could grow Canada’s economy $80B/year — while lifting 3.2M families out of poverty

A report by the Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis shows that Basic Income could grow Canada’s economy $80B/year, create hundreds of thousands of jobs, and support workers and businesses, while lifting 3.2M families out of poverty. Here’s what some top Canadian economists had to say about the report.

 
 
 

Additional Learning

 

The Business Case for Basic Income — CBC Radio

CEOs for Basic Income organizer Floyd Marinescu explains how basic income would help business, stimulate the economy, and help people retrain. Floyd explains how globalization & automation are causing downwards pressure on incomes, leading to the slowing of economic growth.

BNN Bloomberg: Basic Income is trickle-up economics

Paul Smetanin, President & CEO of the Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss his firm's study showing Basic Income can grow Canada's economy sustainably and create hundreds of thousands of jobs— while ending poverty and growing the middle class.

TedX Talk on Basic Income by Floyd Marinescu

Technology created the middle class and now it is destroying it. Basic income could preserve and expand a middle class way of life for everyone, bringing in an era of human prosperity and wellbeing - but only if we can come to see that technology is our shared inheritance.

 
 
 
 
 

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