Media Appearances

November 12, 2024 Pitchfork Economics

We already have the policy blueprint for providing universal guarantees—and it starts with investing in families.

This week, Natalie Foster, co-founder of the Economic Security Project, joins Nick and Goldy to discuss her book The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy. Foster argues that as the world’s wealthiest nation, the U.S. can ensure a basic economic floor for all by guaranteeing essentials like housing, healthcare, higher education, family care, good jobs, and income, regardless of race, religion, or location. Foster explains how giving people money might just be the key to growing the economy for everyone. Their wide-ranging conversation covers topics including the wealth gap, housing affordability, baby bonds, and the political dynamics surrounding guarantee programs.

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June 21, 2024 KQED Forum

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

"This connection between economic security and democracy is very important. Democracy requires time to engage and it requires trust in institutions, and my vote matters... how can we create a more prosperous democracy through economic security."

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June 19, 2024 Capital & Main

Reimagining Economic Possibilities After the Pandemic

"Government needs to work in people’s lives. When it does, it’s something people really like and want."

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June 18, 2024 KALW - Your Call with Rose Aguilar

Your Call: Natalie Foster discusses her new book, “The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy.”

"Under the Guarantee Framework, our government, the government of the wealthiest country on earth, takes responsibility for ensuring that every American’s basic needs are met."

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June 16, 2024 Reframe Your Inbox with Adam M. Lowenstein

A Sunday Conversation with Natalie Foster

The thing that they all have in common is this idea of guaranteeing an economic floor. I wanted to chronicle the progress we’ve seen in policy, and the heroes, the advocates, the researchers, the writers, the technologists who had moved them forward in ways that were unimaginable prior.

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June 12, 2024 Nonprofit Quarterly

Building a “Guarantee Economy”: A Conversation with Natalie Foster

“There is a way the stories we learn about the economy lead us to believe that the economy is like the weather—that it is something that happens to us, when in fact it is a house that we construct every step of the way, with outcomes we decide on. That should give us hope.”

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May 23, 2024 Converging Dialogues

Economic Guarantees: A Dialogue with Natalie Foster

Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Natalie Foster about the guarantee framework for economic stability for all Americans.

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May 23, 2024 The Newsfeed

Guaranteed income programs aim to empower Americans

For more than a decade, Natalie Foster has worked to create a new economic framework that seeks to create and build wealth for communities along racial lines.

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May 20, 2024 Talk Cocktail

“The Guarantee”: Natalie Foster’s Vision for Reimagining the Social Contract and Building an Inclusive Economy

Foster explores what it would take to create an economy that works for everyone, questioning whether the government should guarantee basic rights like housing, healthcare, education, and a living wage.

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May 16, 2024 The Aspen Institute

The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy — A Book Talk with Natalie Foster

Natalie Foster asks us to imagine a new economic framework that casts aside the failures of the trickle-down approach to embrace one that builds economic security and well-being from the bottom up. Foster — co-founder of the Economic Security Project, a leading voice for guaranteed income, and senior fellow at the Aspen Institute’s Future of Work Initiative — explores a bold vision in which housing, health care, higher education, dignified work, family care, and an opportunity to build generational wealth are guaranteed for all by our government.

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May 15, 2024 New Day Northwest

New book shares how to build a more inclusive and resilient economy

Author of "Guarantee," Natalie Foster is at Town Hall Seattle May 15th.

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May 15, 2024 Fast Company

From childcare to broadband, public options could reshape the U.S. economy and break corporate strangleholds

Public options can drive a more just and equitable capitalism driven by democracy, rather than one driven by a plutocracy. America has done it before, to great economic success. We’re poised, at this moment, to do it again.

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