Guarantee (eBook)

Inside the Fight for America's Next Economy

Natalie Foster (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
313 Seiten
The New Press (Verlag)
978-1-62097-869-6 (ISBN)

Infos

With a foreword by Angela GarbesFrom the president of the Economic Security Project, a book showing how a just future is around the corner, if we are ready to seize itThe Guaranteeasks 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 isnt 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 cant 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 todays most important activists and visionaries, and a concrete sense of the policies that are possibleand ready to implementin twenty-first-century America.The Guaranteeis 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.4.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: child care • Child Tax Credit • debt • Economics • Housing • Inequality • Labor Movement • Neoliberalism • Public Policy • Retirement • social change • Social Security • Student Loans • Unions • universal basic income • Work
• ISBN-10: 1-62097-869-5 / 1620978695
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62097-869-6 / 9781620978696