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A Canadian City Once Eliminated Poverty And Nearly Everyone Forgot About It [1]

Submitted by Galactic Free Press on Thu, 02/26/2015 - 08:06

Source: www.huffingtonpost.ca [2] | Original Post Date: December 23, 2014 –

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On a December afternoon, Frances Amy Richardson took a break from her quilting class to reflect on a groundbreaking experiment she took part in 40 years earlier.

“Well, that was quite a few years ago,” she said. “There was a lot of people that really benefitted from it.”

Between 1974 and 1979, residents of a small Manitoba city were selected to be subjects in a project that ensured basic annual incomes for everyone. For five years, monthly cheques were delivered to the poorest residents of Dauphin, Man. – no strings attached.

And for five years, poverty was completely eliminated.

The program was dubbed “Mincome” – a neologism of “minimum income” – and it was the first of its kind in North America. It stood out from similar American projects at the time...

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