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About this book
With a foreword by Angela Garbes
From the president of the Economic Security Project, a book showing how a just future is around the corner, if we are ready to seize it
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, 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Angela Garbes
- Introduction
- 1. Bootstraps and Deadbeats
- 2. Provoke (2011–2016)
- 3. Legitimize (2016–2020)
- 4. Win (2020–2022)
- 5. Room to Breathe (On the Implications of the Guarantee)
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Publishing in the Public Interest
- Additional Praise For the Guarantee
- Copyright