How people like Button respond over the next three years is being closely watched by social scientists, economists and policymakers in Canada and around the world. In the experiment anyone unemployed or with an annual income below 34,000 Canadian dollars ($26,000) is eligible to take part in the program. Single people receive up to 17,000 dollars ($13,000) of basic income and they can keep half of what they earn from working. But Elizabeth McGuire, who heads the Campaign for Adequate Welfare and Disability, has seen a transformation in former welfare receipts already. But Button said that since he got his first check he is no longer sitting around his tiny apartment depressed.

Source: Egypt Independent November 29, 2017 05:03 UTC