Media Appearances

May 8, 2024 Closer Look with Rose Scott

New book examines what it would look like if all American’s basic needs were met

Natalie Foster is president and co-founder of the Economic Security Project. She discusses her new book, “The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy.” The book explores what it would look like if all Americans were guaranteed housing, health care, a college education, dignified work, family care, an inheritance, and a stable income.

May 8, 2024 What Could Go Right?

America’s Next Economy with Natalie Foster

What is the cost of not investing in families in America? How can economic security be guaranteed? Zachary and Emma speak with Natalie Foster, president of the Economic Security Project and author of the new book ‘The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy.’ Baby bonds, student loans, why so many Americans dislike dealing with the government, and raising the economic floor are among the topics discussed today.

April 30, 2024 The.Ink by Anand Giridharadas

What do you deserve?

Author Natalie Foster believes the government should guarantee you many things it does not now. Here's what she envisions a fairer America could look like and how she thinks it can actually be won.

April 29, 2024 LitHub

We Made This Economy, and We Can Remake It: Natalie Foster on Building a Better America

An excerpt from “The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy”

April 24, 2024 The Roosevelt Institute

The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society and The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy

Both Joseph Stiglitz and Natalie Foster’s books explore the crucial role that the federal government plays in shaping the economy and ways in which its power can be used to provide for ordinary Americans. As the long-standing neoliberal economic order is being called into question and populist movements gain traction, we will explore what exactly our government owes to its citizens, why it seems our system is meant to work for the few and not the many, and how we should think about freedom and the role of the state in a 21st-century society.

April 23, 2024 Interintellect

The Guarantee – Author Talk with Natalie Foster | New Labor Book Series #17

Join Siena Chiang and movement leader Natalie Foster to discuss her new book, The Guarantee, which 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.

April 23, 2024 Fortune

I’m a venture capitalist, and here’s why I believe we need to guarantee everyone’s basic needs: The social floor is actually a trampoline that can propel our economy

We have new evidence this is already happening, detailed in the just-released book The Guarantee, by policy advocate Natalie Foster. Over the last few years, the U.S. has embarked on a sweeping set of new programs and experiments—everything from a child tax credit during Covid to cities trying to provide their least fortunate with a guaranteed income to states expanding Medicaid.

April 23, 2024 Background Briefing with Ian Masters

Background Briefing With Ian Masters

April 23, 2024 The Realignment

Universal Basic Income, the Expanded Child-Tax-Credit, & Why America’s Economy Will Be Based on “Guarantees”

Marshall and Natalie discuss how the 2016 election and the COVID pandemic created the opportunity to shift the conventional wisdom about the American economy away from the neoliberal status quo, what an economy built around "guarantees" would look like, lessons from UBI experiments and the expansion of the Child-Tax-Credit, and how progressives should respond to post-COVID inflation's dampening of support for government spending programs.

April 23, 2024 TIME

One Way America Can Meaningfully Address Poverty

Poverty is not inevitable, but it is entrenched. To meaningfully address American poverty requires strategies that address the full financial picture of providing steady, stable income, and generating meaningful wealth building.

March 15, 2024 Politico

How States Can Keep Big Tech from Dominating AI

We’ve learned over the last two decades what happens if we don’t have good rules in place to govern frontier technologies. We have the chance to shape the future of how AI will develop, and we need to be careful not to create monopolies or oligopolies along the way.

March 5, 2024 National Public Radio

Places across the U.S. are testing no-strings cash as part of the social safety net

"If you look at so many other countries with similar economies, you understand that college is free," Natalie Foster says. "They ensure that health care is cheap and affordable. Oftentimes, child care is free. That is the type of life we could offer Americans and choose not to."