National Experts To Participate in Public Policy Debate at URI
Saturday, April 05, 2014
The Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity announced Friday that it will conduct a public policy debate on April 26 at the University of Rhode Island Kingston campus.
The event will be held at URI's Swan Hall beginning at 9:30 AM, and will feature nationally prominent policy experts who will discuss both the economic and moral implications of public policy in our state and across the nation.
The debate, entitled What's Really In Our Best Interest will feature:
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- Rich Benjamin, senior fellow at Demos, and frequent analyst on MSNBC and NPR
- Don Watkins, fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute, published in Forbes and USA Today
- Tom Sgouros, local public policy expert and writer for RI Future and a former GoLocalProv MINDSETTER™
The debate is presented in association with the 2014 RI Student Political Empowerment Conference, an annual non-partisan gathering of area college student to discuss public policy issues and advocacy, as part of the weekend's agenda. GoLocalProv.com will serve as the official media partner of the debate and will soon name the moderator.
Free-wheeling forum
The debate is structured to be a free-wheeling forum where widely divergent public policy approaches will be aired with the goal of analyzing which approach actually helps people the most. The first debate segment will deal with economic philosophies as they pertains to issues currently under consideration in the Ocean State, such as the minimum wage and sales tax or other tax reforms. The second segment will deal with the moral questions surrounding public policy about whether or not individuals are responsible for the well-being of others and whether some public assistance programs are culturally divisive.
Each professional debate panelist will debate side-by-side with an area college student or recent graduate to form four teams of two debaters; two teams in each debate segment.
The debate will be free to the public, with registration expected to open in the coming week. A live, streaming webcast of the debate is also being planned.
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