Program

The Third Congress of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network:

World Reform on the Alaskan Model?

The Capital Hill Hyatt, Washington, DC, February 20-22, 2004

Day 1: Friday February 20

8:00	Morning Coffee, Yorktown Ballroom Level
8:30- 9:00am	WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION TO BIG AND THE USBIG NETWORK, Room: Ticonderoga Coordinator: Karl Widerquist Coordinating Committee: Robert Harris, Steven Shafarman, Al Sheahen, Michael Lewis and Eri Noguchi “What is BIG?”
9:00- 10:40am	1: FEATURED SPEAKERS, Room: Ticonderoga 9:00am: Stanley Aronowitz, the City University of New York, “Basic Income and the Jobless Future” Moderator: Michael Lewis 9:50am: Philip Wogaman, “Guaranteed Income: The Moral Issues; Reflections After 35 Years.” Moderator: Michael Lewis
10:40	Coffee Break, Yorktown Ballroom Level
11:00am- 12:30pm	2A: THE ECONOMICS OF POVERTY, PART ONE, Room: Congressional A Moderator: James Hughes Louise C. Keely, “What Role Does Identity Play in the Preference for Income Redistribution?” Michael A. Lewis (coauthored by Harvey Farberman), “The Cost of Caring” David Wetzell, “On Some Unappreciated Implications of Becker's Time Allocation Model of Labor Supply” Discussants: Alexandra Bernasek and Mike Murray	2B: THE IMPACT OF POVERTY ON HEALTH, Room: Congressional E Moderator: Harry F. Dahms Paula Dyan, “How Does It Feel to Be Homeless?” David Hilfiker, “On Health and Poverty” Stephen Bezruchka, “BIG medicine for achieving population health in the US”
12:30	Lunch Break
2:00- 3:40pm	3A: THE ECONOMICS OF POVERTY, PART TWO, Room: Congressional A Moderator: Pavlina R. Tcherneva David Wetzell, “On the Welfare Effects of a Minimum Wage in a Two-Sector Labor Market with Impoverished Workers” Laura Paszkiewicz, “From AFDC to TANF: Have the New Public Assistance Laws Affected Consumer Spending of Those Receiving it?” James Bryan, “How the Poor Spend: Implications for the Basic Income Guarantee” Discussants: Jorge Iván González, Michael A. Lewis, and Eri Noguchi	3B: CAN TECHNOLOGY ELIMINATE THE NEED TO WORK? Room: Congressional E Moderator: Robert Harris Karl Widerquist, “Economic Possibilities of our Grandparents” James Hughes, “Beyond Luddism: Embracing a Full-Automated Future” Marshall Brain, “Robotic Nation: Economy and Society After Robotics Replaces Fifty Percent of the Workforce”
3:40	Coffee Break, Yorktown Ballroom Level
4:00- 5:30pm	4: AN ALASKA-STYLE OIL DIVIDEND FOR IRAQ?, Room: Ticonderoga Moderator: Karl Widerquist, Oxford University Steven Shafarman, Citizen Policies Institute Diane Pearlman, Psychologists for Social Responsibility Steve Clemons, New America Foundation Jay Hammond, Former Governor of Alaska

Day 2: Saturday February 21

8:00	Morning Coffee, Yorktown Ballroom Level
9:00- 10:40am	5A: CAN RESOURCE RENTS FUND A FULL BASIC INCOME GUARANTEE? Room: Columbia A Moderator: Jeff Smith Edward H. Clarke, “Sharing Rents – A Practitioner's Perspective” Nicolaus Tideman, “Ethical Foundation and Global Implications of Rent-Sharing” Alanna Hartzok, “Resource Rents for Basic Income: Alaska, Norway and Nigeria”	5B: THE ETHICS OF UNCONDITIONAL REDISTRIBUTION, Room: Columbia C Moderator: Allan Sheahen Karl Widerquist, “Freedom as the Power to Say No.” Richard K. Caputo, “Redistributive Schemes that Skirt Poverty: Reconsidering Economic Justice in Light of Parijs and Zucker” Jason Burke Murphy, “That We May Know What we Want: Towards an Argument for a Basic Income Based on Deliberation” Discussants: Pete Farina, Harry F. Dahms, and Richard K. Caputo
10:40	Coffee Break, Yorktown Ballroom Level
11:00am- 12:30pm	6A: JOB GUARANTEES AND INCOME GUARANTEES: SUBSTITUTES OR COMPLEMENTS? A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION, Room: Columbia A Moderator: Steve Pressman Pavlina R. Tcherneva, “Job versus Income Guarantees” Philip Harvey, “The Right to Work and Basic Income Guarantees: Competing or Complementary Ideas” Charles M.A. Clark, St. John’s University Karl Widerquist, Oxford University	6B: NATIONAL POLITICS AND THE BASIC INCOME GUARANTEE, Room: Columbia A Moderator: Eri Noguchi Leland Neuberg, “Why Nixon Proposed A Negative Income Tax And What Killed It” Reid Cramer, “Stakeholdership at Birth: The Challenges and Benefits of Creating a National System of Universal Accounts for Savings and Asset Building.” George McGuire, “Green Capitalism”
12:30	Lunch Break
2:00- 3:40pm	7A:ECONOMIC MODELING OF THE COST OF A BASIC INCOME GUARANTEE, Room: Columbia A Moderator: James Bryan Mike Murray, “A Draft Model For Calculating the Cost of a Prototype Basic Income” Charles M.A. Clark, “Ending Poverty as we Know it” Jorge Iván González, “Universal Basic Income and Targeted Policies” Discussants: James Bryan, Louise C. Keely, and David Wetzell	7B: IS THERE A RIGHT TO A BASIC INCOME? Room: Columbia C Moderator: Leland Neuberg Allan Sheahen, “Does Everyone Have the Right to Economic Security?” Pete Farina, “The Case Against Income Inequality (and for a Basic Income Guarantee)” Michele Tingling-Clemmons, National Welfare Rights Union, “The National Welfare Rights Union Campaign for a Guaranteed Adequate Annual Income” Discussants: Philip Harvey, and Jason Burke Murphy
3:40	Coffee Break, Yorktown Ballroom Level
4:00- 5:00pm	8: FEATURED SPEAKER, Room: Ticonderoga Eduardo Suplicy, Member of the Brazilian Senate, “The Introduction of a Basic Income Guarantee in Brazil” Moderator: Eri Noguchi
5:00- 5:30pm	Break
5:30- 6:30pm	9: KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Room: Ticonderoga Jay Hammond, Former Governor of Alaska, “The Alaska Permanent Fund.” Moderator: Eri Noguchi
7:00-?	RECEPTION HOSTED BY USBIG AND THE CITIZEN POLICIES INSTITUTE, Room: Ticonderoga

Day 3: Sunday, February 22

8:00	Morning Coffee, Hall of Battles Ballroom Level
9:00- 10:40am	10A: STRATEGIES FOR SOCIAL REFORM, Capital Room Moderator: Robert Harris Theresa Funicello, “Caregiving” Steven Shafarman, “Living Wage, Job Guarantees, and the need for a Basic Income” Anna Marie Klein, “Roosevelt's Promise: Economic Security and Democracy in the 21st Century”	10B: A CALL TO ACTION AGAINST POVERTY, Yorktown Room Moderator: Allan Sheahen Cynthia Reeves Tuttle, “Hunger as a Political Issue: Results of the Alliance to End Hunger National Survey” Carla Theodore, “A Guaranteed Income as a Meaningful Step Towards a Sane Economy” Meredith Dodson, “Essential advocacy skills—how to lobby effectively, generate media and speak powerfully about U.S. poverty.”
10:40	Coffee Break, Hall of Battles Ballroom Level
11:00am- 12:30pm	11A: THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SOCIAL REFORM, Capital Room Moderator: Jason Burke Murphy Harry F. Dahms, “Returning to the Future: Basic Income, Economic Rights, and Globalization” Alexandra Bernasek, (coauthored by John Marangos), “A Feminist Approach to Market Socialism: The Case for a Guaranteed Minimum Income” Eri Noguchi and Michael Lewis, “Unconditional Basic Income: A Basic Condition of A More Democratic Society?”	11B: BUILDING THE MOVEMENT: A ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION ON REALIZING A BASIC INCOME GUARANTEE, Yorktown Room Moderator: Steven Shafarman, Citizen Policies Institute Roy Morrison, Independent Scholar and Author Jim Sykes, Green Party of Alaska Dave Richardson, Secretary, American Federation of Government Employees, Local 12
12:30	Lunch Break
2:00- 3:30pm	USBIG ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING, Room: Yellowstone/Everglades