Image by Dave Ron

[Craig Axford]

Canada’s 1970s experiment with a basic income guarantee in a small town in Manitoba is revisited in this article.  Though the Mincome pilot program came to an end in 1978 without the impacts of the program receiving much analysis, that changed when Evelyn Forget, professor of health sciences at the University of Manitoba, gained access to the data in 2009.

Vivian Belik, “A Town Without Poverty?”,  The Dominion, September 5, 2011