6th Congress of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network

New York City, February 23 – 25, 2007

OPENING SPEAKERS

Michael Lewis, “Welcome and Introduction”
Annie Miller, “Basic Income, necessary but not sufficient: some women’s issues”
Dalton Conley, “From Guaranteed Income to Guaranteed Assets”
Moderator: Michael Lewis

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THE ETHICS OF BIG
Almaz Zelleke, “Is ‘The Plan’ a Basic Income? An Assessment of Charles Murray’s Proposal to Replace the Welfare State with an (Almost) Universal Grant”
Samuel Butler, “Migrants, Martians and Minimums”
Nicolaus Tideman, “Ethical Foundations for Differential Global, National, and Local Income Guarantees”
Moderator: Eri Noguchi

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FINANCE AND THE BASIC INCOME GUARANTEE
David Wetzell, “A New Kind of Index Fund Designed to Determine the Holdings of a Public Mutual Fund that would Help Save Social Security”
Richard Cook, “The Basic Income Guarantee and Monetary Reform: A Tale of Two Ideas”
Stephen Clark, “Transcendental Monetization: The Juarez Plan”
Moderator: Steve Shafarman

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FAMILY, CARE WORK, AND GENDER
Christine Todd, “Poverty Reduction and Welfare Provision for Single Parents in Aotearoa/ New Zealand and the United States”
Michael Lewis, “Compensation for the Cost of Caring: Wages or a Basic Income”
Laura Bambrick, “A BIG Response to Wollstonecraft’s Dilemma”
Moderator: Al Sheahen

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THE POLITICS OF BASIC INCOME, PARTS I and II
Richard Caputo, “The Death Knoll of BIG or BIG by Stealth: A Preliminary Assessment of BIG Political Viability around the Globe”
Nadine Schenk, “Political Constraints to Implementing a Basic Income Grant in South Africa”
Ingrid Van Niekerk, “Universalism Promotes Development: Evidence from Southern Africa’s Social Transfers”
Al Sheahen, “The Rise and Fall of a Basic Income Guarantee bill in the U.S. Congress”
Buford Farris, “Happy Workers, Welfare Queens and Surfers: Images in the Debate Around a Guaranteed Income”
Steve Shafarman, “A Peaceful, Positive Revolution: The Campaign for a Basic Income”
Moderator: Michael Howard

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ECONOMIC ISSUES OF BIG
Micheál Collins, “What Level? Insights into the selection of a Basic Income payment level using deprivation data and implicit poverty lines”
Sean Healy and Brigid Reynolds, “Making Tax Credits Refundable: A Pathway to Basic Income in Ireland?”
Jeffery Smith, “Can a Citizens Dividend Replace Welfare?”
Moderator: Kruti Dholakia

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ALTERNATIVE ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAMS
Jim Bryan, “Wage Subsidies vs. the Basic Income Guarantee: Some Equity and Efficiency Considerations of two Approaches to Aid the Poor”
Michael Howard, “A NAFTA Dividend: A proposal for a guaranteed minimum income for North America”
Sabrina Quaraishi, “How Empowering Is Microcredit: A Look At Grameen Bank”
Moderator: Almaz Zelleke

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FEATURED SPEAKERS
Stanley Aronowitz, the City University of New York
Senator Eduardo Suplicy, Brazilian Federal Senate
Moderator: Ingrid Van Niekerk

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Andrew Mitchell
9:30am – 10:40am: A Debate: Income Guarantees vs. Job Guarantees
Phil Harvey vs. Karl Widerquist
Moderator: Jim Bryan

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FEATURED SPEAKERS
Karl Widerquist, “Presentation of the Basic Income Studies Essay Award”
Fred Block, “Strategic Openings: How Can We Make Basic Income a Part of  the Progressive Agenda in the United States?”
William DiFazio
Moderator: Ingrid Van Niekerk

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A TRIBUTE TO ROBERT HARRIS
Steve Shafarman, Almaz Zelleke, and Al Sheahen