Income pilot project delays action: poverty groups – Northumberland Today
April 25, 2017
NORTHUMBERLAND – A spokesperson for the Northumberland Coalition Against Poverty has spoken out against Ontario’s basic-income pilot projects announced Monday by the Kathleen Wynne government.
Deb O’Connor says what is needed instead is an immediate increase to income supports and minimum wage – and that this project only delays that possibility.
During local consultations hosted by the provincial government about the upcoming pilots, NCAP and the Port Hope-based Green Wood Coalition both told a public meeting that income increases for those on subsidies needed to take place right away.
That is not what is taking place with the three-year test projects.
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