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The costs of the cashless economy

The costs of the cashless economy

This Matters

September 9, 202013m 47s

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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.