Very interesting! I had a peripheral involvement in this and have often wondered what happened to the data (I left the country just as it was supposed to be reporting...
I'll look forward to reading the book when it comes out. M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Glen Newton Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 3:35 AM To: civicaccess discuss; GOSLING members in Ottawa Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] "A Town Without Poverty? Canada's only experiment in guaranteed income finally gets reckoning" http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4100 "...For a four-year period in the '70s, the poorest families in Dauphin, Manitoba, were granted a guaranteed minimum income by the federal and provincial governments. Thirty-five years later all that remains of the experiment are 2,000 boxes of documents that have gathered dust in the Canadian archives building in Winnipeg. Until now little has been known about what unfolded over those four years in the small rural town, since the government locked away the data that had been collected and prevented it from being analyzed. But after a five year struggle, Evelyn Forget, a professor of health sciences at the University of Manitoba, secured access to those boxes in 2009. Until the data is computerized, any systematic analysis is impossible. Undeterred, Forget has begun to piece together the story by using the census, health records, and the testimony of the program's participants. What is now emerging reveals that the program could have counted many successes." -- - http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/ - _______________________________________________ CivicAccess-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
