{"id":6087,"date":"2020-08-20T01:44:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T05:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=6087"},"modified":"2020-08-20T01:44:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T05:44:08","slug":"basic-income-is-on-the-table-in-canada-is-it-the-fight-we-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=6087","title":{"rendered":"Basic income is on the table in Canada. Is it the fight we want?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As unemployment remains high, CERB remains an important way to keep Canadians afloat. We should continue fighting for its survival. But the long-term idea of converting CERB to basic income, both as a policy and strategy for the left, is less a matter of principle and imagining the possible than it is a gamble with conservatives and free market fetishists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/canadiandimension.com\/articles\/view\/basic-income-is-on-the-table-in-canada-is-it-the-fight-we-want\">Basic income is on the table in Canada. Is it the fight we want?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As unemployment remains high, CERB remains an important way to keep Canadians&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[84,169,18,140,178],"class_list":["post-6087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-economics","tag-paul","tag-ubi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}