Why Guaranteeing the Poor an Income Will Save Us All In the End
Hugh Segal
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Posted 04.09.2013
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Canada Business
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The wrong approach to poverty reduction is to ignore the problem, letting the ideological conceit that a rising tide lifts all boats obscure the hard reality that many Canadians have no boat -- or access to anyone who has ever had a boat. The answer is automatic top-ups for those who fall beneath the poverty line.
