Vermont law requires that our state budget address Vermonters’ right to health, housing, dignified work, education, food, social security, and a healthy environment. Although it’s a work of fiction, Gather by Kenneth Cadow shows us that we often fail to keep these promises to each other.

Join Stephanie Yu, Executive Director of Public Assets Institute, to explore why and how our state policies are failing families like Ian’s—the main character of the novel—and what tools the state has to keep these promises more effectively.