Guaranteed Basic Income presentation on June 5th
ka...@avens.ca
“Poverty can happen very quickly to anyone. Our long-standing commitment to calling for a Guaranteed Livable Income first articulated in 1972 took on new resolve and urgency in the pandemic, and we continue to persist today.” (UCC website)
The Outreach Committee is a member of Alternatives North, a local social, economic and environmental justice organization. Alternatives North has invited Karl Widerquist "a leader of the worldwide basic income movement" to their meeting on June 5th . Meeting will be at 12:15 in Ecology North boardroom, or join online (if interested contact Karen H ka...@avens.ca for the link).
More on Karl Widerquist, Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University-Qatar, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Widerquist
A report on Basic Income for the NWT from 2023, helped funded by UCC, is here: https://alternativesnorth.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2023-04-13-nwt-big-project-full-report-43752.pdf
Karen Hamre