The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America's Next Economy
Natalie Foster
Sep 2024 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Leanne Woodward
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The Guarantee asks us to imagine an America where housing, health care, a college education, dignified work, family care, an inheritance, and an income floor are not only attainable by all but guaranteed, by our government, for everyone. But isn't this pie-in-the-sky thinking? Not by a long shot, as this provocative new book reveals. As it stands, our current economic system is chock full of government-backed guarantees, from bailouts to bankruptcy protection, to keep the private sector in business. So why can't the same be true for the rest of us? Author Natalie Foster, cofounder of the Economic Security Project, has had a front-row seat to the dramatic leaps forward in government guarantees over the past decade, from student debt relief to the child tax credit expansion. Her brilliantly sketched vision for a new Guarantee Framework is rooted in real life experiences, collaborations with some of today's most important activists and visionaries, and a concrete sense of the policies that are possible-and ready to implement-in twenty-first-century America. The Guarantee is the rare book that will shift the terms of debate, moving us from the expired and defunct assumptions of no-guardrails capitalism to a nation that works for all of its people.
About the author
Natalie Foster is a leading architect of the movement to build an inclusive and resilient economy. She is the president and cofounder of Economic Security Project and an Aspen Institute Fellow, and her work and writing has appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, Time, Business Insider, CNN, and the Guardian.
Leanne Woodward has been behind the microphone for more than thirty years, working in radio as well as on commercial voice-over projects. She also has a background in theater and improv. When not narrating, Leanne explores the "real" world with hikes into the wild and dangerous culinary experiments.
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