Guarantee - Dispatches From the Front Lines of America''s Next Economy

With a foreword by Angela GarbesFrom the president of the Economic Security Project, a book that shows how a just future is around the corner, if we are ready to seize itThe 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, co-founder 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.

Product details

• Authors: Natalie Foster, Foster Natalie
• Assisted by: Angela Garbes (Foreword), Garbes Angela (Foreword)
• Publisher: New press usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2024
• EAN: 9781620978467
• ISBN: 978-1-62097-846-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, United States of America, USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Central / national / federal government policies