Evelyn L. Forget. Basic Income for Canadians: The key to a healthier, happier, more secure life for all. James Lorimer and Company. Toronto: 2018.
- Interview on The Best Evidence podcast
Top Level Table of Contents with interpreted outline:
- Basic Income Guarantee for Canada
- Definition
- Contrasted against provincial income assistance
- How it's more than antipoverty
- How it could make Canadians better off
- Rediscovering Mincome
- Examples around the world
- What Mincome was
- How Mincome helped people
- Basic Income is Good for Your Health
- The Future of Work
- Old views
- Persistent ideas
- Silicon Valley Utopianism's issues
- More realistic view
- Work and Human Dignity
- Why people work
- Nuanced exploration of how basic income relates to work
- How work and social benefits are complex
- Women and Basic Income
- Nuanced exploration of how basic income impacts various working women at various career stages
- How Basic Income Affects Different People
- Nuanced exploration covering different ages, races, ability restrictions
- Nine Myths About Basic Income
- Explores the realities and summarizes with nine reality checks.
- Can We Afford Basic Income
- Explores costs, federal budgets, and design elements for a basic income
- Compares to existing programs, too
- Getting From Here to There
- Compares sudden and gradual approaches
- Examines vested interests and social biases (taxpayers)
- Suggests how to give it a shot
- A Basic Income for All of Us
- Appendix: Notes on the Costs of a Basic Income