Natalie Foster’s ‘The Guarantee’ Imagines An America Where Government Ensures Economic Stability for Everyone

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🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In her new book, “The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy,” author Natalie Foster argues for an American economy that guarantees governmental support for seven core areas: housing, health care, a college education, dignified work, family care, an inheritance, and an income floor. Foster is president and co-founder of the Economic Security Project, a nonprofit that advocates for economic stability. She joins to talk about her vision to improve individual lives and society as a whole. Guests: Natalie Foster, president and co-founder, Economic Security Project, a research center focused on guaranteed income programs, and senior fellow, The Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.1	What should the American government guarantee for the people who live in this country?
1:11.9	Right now, we've got free education up through 12th grade, cash payments for Americans over 65, among other things. But what else could make American lives better while fortifying society?
1:17.5	In a time of rampant inequality and housing instability, Natalie Foster, the co-founder of the
1:23.3	Economic Security Project, offers up a new framework for expanding how we think about the floor
1:29.3	the government puts under all Americans. She joins us to share her vision right after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:51.4	The Reagan years usually marked the start of what gets called neoliberalism.
1:56.2	The basic idea was that markets could solve societal problems better than governments and that the dynamism
2:02.4	of free enterprise could create more wealth for everyone to share. The goal for governments became to
2:08.4	structure markets and get out of the way. And if the actual budget never shrank and if the
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