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Critics of basic income ignore benefits of investing in struggling Canadians, ‘astronomical’ cost of poverty, argues Senator Pate

ISG Senator Kim Pate's Bill S-233, the National Framework for a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income Act, passed second reading in the Red Chamber on April 18.

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Critics of basic income ignore benefits of investing in struggling Canadians, ‘astronomical’ cost of poverty, argues Senator Pate

ISG Senator Kim Pate's Bill S-233, the National Framework for a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income Act, passed second reading in the Red Chamber on April 18.

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