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© Jessie Golem – Humans of Basic Income

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Welcome to the Living Library.

The Living Library includes up-to-date resources about basic income.

The Living Library is different from other resource lists because it has been created to feature the voices of advocates and people with lived experiences.

Here you will find not only research articles and books on basic income, but you will also find stories of people’s lived experiences from basic income pilot projects and local advocacy articles.

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a. BI BASICS

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b. BI EXPERIENCES, RESEARCH & EVALUATION

i. A Federal Basic Income Within the Post COVID-19 economic recovery plan by Segal, Forget, Banting (Royal Society of Canada.

ii. Southern Ontario’s Basic Income Experience (Pilot Project)

iii. The Manitoba Basic Annual Income Experiment: Lessons Learned 40 Years Later by Wayne Simpson, Greg Mason, Ryan Godwin

iv. Potential Economic Impacts and Reach of Basic Income Programs in Canada by the Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis

v. Broadbent Institute – A Social Democratic Framework

vi. The Basic Income Experiment 2017-2018: Preliminary Results by the Ministry of Social Affairs & Health Finlan

vii. Coalition Canada – Brief to the House of Commons on Recovery Plans from COVID-19 (August 2020)

viii. Federal Support Through Major Transfers to Provincial and Territorial Governments by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Office (September 2020)

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c. BI COMMON CONCERNS

i. Basic Income: Frequently Asked Questions by Coalition Canada

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d. BI AND LOCAL STORIES, ARTICLES & ACTIVITIES

i. My Journey to Becoming an Advocate for a Basic Income Guarantee in Canada by Rob Evans (for the Waterloo Region Record)

ii. Basic Income: Are We Talking About the Same Thing? By Carol Stalker (for the Waterloo Region Record)

iii. The Manitoba Basic Annual Income Experiment: Lessons Learned 40 Years Later by Wayne Simpson, Greg Mason, Ryan Godwin

iv. BIWR Newsletters

v. OBIN: Basic Income and Small Business – “A conversation with Rob Evans” by John Mills

vii. Basic Income in Canada: Systemic Defects and Current Fundamentals Affecting Economic Equity by Robert D. Evans (August 31, 2020)

viii. AMO Focuses on Housing and Homelessness in Pre-Budget Advice to Ontario Legislature

ix. Back to Basics by Carol Stalker (for the Globe and Mail)

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e. BI LEADERS

i. Work, Idleness and Basic Income: Elaine Power & Jamie Swift Make the Case for Basic Income – Inroads, Issue 49

ii. Basic Income Policy Brief by Segal, Forget & Banting (October 2020).

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f. BI BOOKS

i. Bootstraps Need Boots: One Tory’s Lonely Fight to End Poverty in Canada

ii. Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo

iii. The Key to a Healthier, Happier, More Secure Life For All by Evelyn L. Forget.

iv. Basic Income For Canadians: From the COVID-19 Emergency to Financial Security for All by Evelyn L. Forget

v. The Case for Basic Income by Jamie Swift and Elaine Power

vi. The Popularity of Basic Income: Evidence from the Polls by Tijs Laenen

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