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A Progressive Response to
SOTU
In response to a State of the Union
speech riddled
with inaccuracies,
the Progressive Caucus Action Fund served a
temperature check
featuring commentary from new progressivism’s leading
thinkers—including Roosevelt President & CEO Felicia Wong. “Trump
is going to run his re-election campaign on the claim that the economy
is great. The truth is that the American economy is not great,” Wong
said. “In order to restore the integrity of American democracy, we
must be explicit about the need for anti-corruption reforms and commit
to reducing conflicts of interest—among legislators and
regulators—through new rules that curb the influence of money in
politics and policymaking.”
Read
on.
 Centering Blackness
As Black History Month continues, two
new Roosevelt papers highlight the need for centering Blackness beyond
February. In “Don’t
Fixate on the Racial Wealth Gap: Focus on Undoing its Root
Causes,” Insight
Center for Community Economic Development President and Roosevelt
Fellow Anne Price argues that focusing on the root of racial wealth inequality—rather than the gap
alone—is vital to right the
wrongs of the past and prevent their recurrence. “We must seize the
moment to think big and dismantle anti-Blackness, the foundational
architecture of the rules that maintain racial oppression and economic
exclusion today,” Price writes. See
coverage of the report in Forbes.
- Hidden rules of
race: In a working paper (and forthcoming issue brief),
Roosevelt Fellow Lenore Palladino explains how corporate equity
ownership has increasingly contributed to the racial wealth
gap. Read
more and revisit Roosevelt’s issue brief on
the racial
rules of corporate power.
 The Future of
Progressivism
In a new profile, Teen Vogue’s Allegra Kirkland speaks with Southern
Economic Advancement Project Executive Director Stacey Abrams at the
Roosevelt
Network’s 15th birthday party. “What I wish people understood is that to
me, politics is a means to an end. It is not an end in itself,” Abrams
says. Read
on.
 EconCon
2020
On March 26 and 27, join Roosevelt and
progressive organizations across the country at EconCon
2020. With dozens
of panels and experts, and
keynote speakers Sen. Sherrod
Brown (D-OH) and Philadelphia Councilwoman Helen Gym, the
conference will highlight progressivism’s big ideas for building
tomorrow’s economy. Register
here.
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