Considerations for Basic Income as a Covid-19 Response

Considerations for Basic Income as a Covid-19 Response

David Green, Rhys Kesselman, Lindsey Tedds

When the federal government created the Canada Emergency Response Benefit(CERB) to help Canadians who had lost their jobs in the COVID-19 lockdown, itsparked renewed interest in the idea of a basic income. However, many policyquestions need to be discussed and resolved in order to assess a basic incomeand compare it to alternative forms of social support. Careful and thoroughconsideration of these matters is vital in deciding whether a basic income shouldbe implemented, and if so, how it should be done and indeed what form itshould take.

2020

policy implementation, Policy design, basic income, COVID-19

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The School of Public Policy Publications

University of Calgary

Political institutions and public administration (General)