Here is an e-mail petition is support of Guaranteed Annual Income/ Citizen's Income, from a member of Citizen's Income Toronto. A Citizen's Income means, very simply, ending poverty by giving everybody enough money so they do not have to be poor. To begin learning about the concept, and the Citizen's Income group in Toronto, go to www.citizensincome.ca
Here is the petition, with some prominent labour studies and social policy historians in support thus far: http://www.petitiononline.com/gai08/petition.html You might all want to take a brief look at the UDHR obligations (Articles 23-25, and others) as rationale for the GAI/CI: http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html It is especially urgent in Canada to implement this given that we do not provide free public health (ie: dental) or free post-secondary education and other key services provided in other nations (less wealthy nations than Canada). _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list Futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
