The Longevity Book Club:
A Conversation with Natalie Foster
December 11, 2024

In The Guarantee, Natalie Foster 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. 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? And how would it foster healthy aging in an era of increased longevity?

On December 11th, Natalie Foster talked with Ken about her book, “The Guarantee”, and her vision for a new Guarantee Framework—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.