#1228 David Calnitsky: Basic Income, Poverty, and Socialism

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricard Lops, and today I'm joined by Dr. David Kalnitsky. He's an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario. His research interests include sociological theory, social policy, and poverty, and his empirical work has examined the impact of basic income on the range of outcomes from wages and work.

to social stigma and gender dynamics. And today we're going to focus mostly on basic income, the impact of poverty on society, socialism and some other related topics. So Dr. Kalnitsky, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have you one.

Thanks very much. So Let's start with basic income. F first of all, what is basic income and is there one single understanding of what basic income is, or do different people have different proposals of what basic income should be like? Yeah.

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