Ep. 5 - Christmas in July
I AM MADELINE22 Jul 2021

Ep. 5 - Christmas in July

"If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." said the world's most famous miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, of those in poverty, before his Christmas Eve enlightenment. Now, in 2021, the Canadian government has introduced a basic income for people with disabilities. It won't be law until it's likely far too late for Madeline and others with chronic illness or disability, barely surviving on government income well below the poverty line.

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