Saturday, 23 February 2013

" ...A Town Without Poverty? Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada's only experiment in guaranteed income..."

" ...A Town Without Poverty? Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada's only experiment in guaranteed income "Minicome" finally gets reckoning by Vivian Belik  (Audio & Text URLS)... For a four-year period in the 1970s, the poorest families in Dauphin, Manitoba, were granted a guaranteed minimum income by the federal and provincial governments. Thirty-five years later all that remains of the experiment are 2,000 boxes of documents..." Text http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4100 CBC Radio "Superior Morning" Audio file via YouTube http://youtu.be/pQ1CapAOu7M

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