Coming Soon: A
True New Deal
On Monday, the Roosevelt Institute is
releasing a new foundational report that, by leading with inclusion,
makes the case for a 21st century New Deal. Similar to today, FDR’s
America needed bold, inventive government action to stabilize the
economy and build a more stable future. As we draw inspiration from
the original New Deal—which offered a new framework for using
government to shift power in our economy and society—we also heed its
lessons and flaws. Today’s New Deal must be different, dismantling
policy choices that reward and replicate white supremacy and
patriarchy, reclaiming public power from private hands, and building
institutions that ensure broadly shared prosperity.
- More from
Roosevelt: On
Wednesday, we’re officially launching a new, forward-looking website
to better align with our forward-thinking vision for the American
economy and democracy. Visit www.rooseveltinstitute.org
later next week to check it out.
What to Watch:
#HiddenRules and Reparations Webinar
Yesterday, Duke University’s William
“Sandy” Darity Jr. and Community Change President Dorian Warren joined
Roosevelt President & CEO Felicia Wong for a special-edition
webinar on the hidden rules of race and the role of reparations.
“Wealth is crystalized history. What you have and don’t have is a
reflection of what your parents and grandparents had or didn’t
have—and that is a reflection of rules that cast very, very, very long
shadows,” said Wong. “But it’s also a [reflection of a] set of
choices: We can make choices to make different rules that can actually
reverse some of that history.” Watch
it now.
Preparing for the Worst
Congress’s ad-hoc response to the
COVID-19 crisis today and to the Great Recession of 2008 is
“inefficient at best and malpractice at worst,” co-wrote Great Democracy Initiative (GDI) Fellow
Lindsay Owens in a recent report. She’s on the latest episode of
Pitchfork
Economics discussing why
we need to make structural changes to the economy that help everyone,
not just the privileged few—and why we need to stop relying on crisis
legislation that barely patches us through calamities. Listen
here.
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