{"id":52792,"date":"2017-04-24T16:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T23:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/ontario-basic-income-pilot-project-to-launch-in-hamilton-lindsay-and-thunder-bay"},"modified":"2017-04-24T16:42:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T23:42:29","slug":"ontario-basic-income-pilot-project-to-launch-in-hamilton-lindsay-and-thunder-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/ontario-basic-income-pilot-project-to-launch-in-hamilton-lindsay-and-thunder-bay","title":{"rendered":"Ontario basic income pilot project to launch in Hamilton, Lindsay and Thunder Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fPx6ePRRWcs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Basic income pilot project in Ontario.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Premier Kathleen Wynne announced Monday a plan to study basic income in Ontario, in a three-year pilot project based in Hamilton, Lindsay and Thunder Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The province will explore the effectiveness of providing a basic income \u2014 no matter what \u2014 to people who are currently living on low incomes, \u201cwhether they are working or not,\u201d Wynne said.<\/p>\n<p>Wynne said the pilot will provide the basic income to 4,000 households chosen from applicants invited \u201crandomly\u201d by the province in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/hamilton\/wynne-announcement-hamilton-1.4082476\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/hamilton\/wynne-announcement-hamilton-1.4082476<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basic income pilot project in Ontario. Premier Kathleen Wynne announced Monday a plan to study basic income in Ontario, in a three-year pilot project based in Hamilton, Lindsay and Thunder Bay. The province will explore the effectiveness of providing a basic income \u2014 no matter what \u2014 to people who are currently living on low [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}