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An Obstacle to
Progress
Voting rights. LGBTQ+ protections.
Gender equity.
The filibuster is currently
preventing the passage of essential, broadly popular reforms—and
senators’ increasing usage has accelerated a decades-long trend of
thwarted legislative progress.
That isn’t constitutional design.
It’s exploitation of an accident, as Roosevelt’s Emily DiVito
explains.
“At the critical moment we’re
in—having made significant progress combatting COVID-19 and on the
brink of an economic boom—we can’t let an accidental loophole dictate
what is politically possible. The filibuster has frequently presaged
the defeat of progressive civil rights, worker power, and economic
reforms. That won’t change until we change it.”
Read
“Then and Now: The Filibuster Obstructs Policies for the
People.”
The Legacy of George
Floyd
“The immoral devaluation of Black
lives has been ingrained in America’s political economy and is long
overdue for a reckoning,” Roosevelt Fellow Darrick Hamilton said this
week at a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee’s
Subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion.
“Government has a fiduciary
responsibility to facilitate economic inclusion, civic engagement, and
social equity for all its people.”
Read on for Hamilton’s full testimony at the
hearing—“The Legacy of George Floyd: An Examination of Financial
Services Industry Commitments to Economic and Racial
Justice.”
New Fiduciary Rules
“It is time to rewrite the rules of
asset manager fiduciary duty—that is, the responsibilities that those
who manage money have to those whose money it is—to more accurately
reflect the interests that households have in a sustainable economy
and livable planet,” Roosevelt Fellow Lenore Palladino and Rick
Alexander—founder of The Shareholder Commons—write in a new Roosevelt
issue brief.
Read
their recommendations for federal
reform.
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