2019 Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture with David Green

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On October 3, 2019, the CCPA-BC and UBC's Vancouver School of Economics were pleased to present the 2019 Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture. In an era of high inequality, continuing poverty, homelessness and housing issues, and concerns about the impact of new technologies on work, there is an appetite for considering radical policy shifts. In that context, a basic income has received a lot of attention across the policy discussion spectrum. It has been promoted as a policy tool that can help eliminate poverty, and which can also play a central role in restructuring society and the role of labour within it. The question this lecture considers is, “Is it the right policy for BC now?” David Green—a member of the BC government’s panel looking into a basic income—provides background on trends in the economy that are related to the call for a basic income, and describes the different forms a basic income could take, specify potential goals for it, and describe some of the cost and other practicalities. Following David’s talk members of different local communities share what a basic income in BC could mean — both its potential and its problems. Participants include: - Margot Young (Allard School of Law at UBC) - Chuka Ejeckam (BC Federation of Labour) - Trish Garner (BC Poverty Coalition)