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Image from the House vote showing the passage of the Build Back Better Act.

A New Economic Consensus

This morning, after months of negotiations, the House passed President Biden’s Build Back Better Act. From paid leave and universal childcare to clean energy and climate resilience, the bill makes unprecedented investments in care and climate. 

It also sets a new precedent: that government can and must be shaping these vital sectors to drive equitable, sustainable prosperity.

“In its ambitious economic plan, the Biden administration is . . . departing from a long-dominant neoliberal consensus . . . in favor of a sweeping new vision for economic growth based on privileging work over wealth and planet over profit,” Roosevelt President and CEO Felicia Wong writes in Foreign Affairs.

Today’s House vote was a crucial step in that direction. But on this day, we also witnessed—yet again—the entrenched hurdles to true equity. The verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial reminds us that there is no justice when our judicial system protects white supremacy.

Inflation in Context

As consumer prices increase, many Roosevelt experts have been analyzing the moment and suggesting enduring structural solutions. Read more:

What We Need for a Multiracial Democracy

“The only way to achieve the promise of our multiracial democracy is to not shy away from either ‘multiracial’ or ‘democracy,’” Wong and Roosevelt Deputy Director of Race and Democracy Kyle Strickland write in Democracy Journal. “A new kind of politics will depend on a new narrative that . . . points toward a vision of society that imagines and describes something bigger, more inclusive, and more democratic.”

As Roosevelt’s Shahrzad Shams explains, this new narrative must make its way into our courts, where conservatives have used “colorblind” ideology to obstruct racial progress.

“It is crucial that we adopt a race-conscious jurisprudence that reckons with our history and present-day realities,” Shams writes. “One that not only acknowledges the state-sanctioned violence perpetrated against people of color, but that allows for democratic processes to effectively remedy these injustices.”

Learn more in “A Jurisprudential Reckoning: How Conservatives Use “Colorblind” Ideology to Obstruct Racial Justice.”

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