EPISODE · Sep 9, 2020 · 13 MIN
The costs of the cashless economy
from This Matters · host Toronto Star
The move to cashless business has a big cost. A 2019 study showed that 17 percent of the UK's population would "struggle to cope in a cashless society." Many in Canada will also be at a disadvantage. Brendan Kennedy, Toronto Star's social justice reporter, joins Adrian Cheung to talk about how quickly Canada has embraced the cashless evolution, who is getting quickly left out and why a story often told in technological and economic terms is — at heart — a story about inequality.
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