The steamy romance of a universal basic income

Alexandra Romanoff's Big Fan is a romance novel in which a political strategist falls for her teenage pop star crush — and spends the book trying to get him to endorse a universal basic income campaign. It's been called "Highbrow/Brilliant" by New York Magazine and praised by Vogue and EW. It's also, quietly, one of the best pop-culture arguments for guaranteed income in recent memory. The novel takes the policy seriously and portrays its political challenges honestly. That's what author and advocate (and Local Economy member!) Natalie Foster has spent the last decade doing, too. She wrote The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America's Next Economy, the full case for why guaranteed income, healthcare, housing, and care are economic rights, not charity, and what it would take to win them. Hosted by buzzy publisher 831 Stories, Romanoff and Foster's conversation will deliver romance and policy.