Natalie Foster with Darrick Hamilton | The Guarantee

Can you 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, according to Natalie Foster, co-founder of the Economic Security Project. She says 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?
Her vision for a new American Guarantee 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 21st-century America.
Natalie Foster joins with Dr. Darrick Hamilton, economics professor at The New School for Social Research, to discuss shifting the debate about our shared economic system.
New America CA
Photos courtesy the speakers.
May 9, 2024
Speakers
Welcome & Introduction by Lateefah Simon
President, Meadow Fund
Natalie Foster
President, Economic Security Project; Author, The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy
In Conversation with Darrick Hamilton
Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy and Director of the Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification and Political Economy, The New School for Social Research
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