And so does our economy.
The Roosevelt Rundown features our top stories of the week.
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** The Filibuster Must Go
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Just passed by the House, the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act is now off to the Senate.
The stakes for our democracy—and economy—could not be higher. And the 52 senators still defending the filibuster are endangering both.
As Roosevelt’s Shahrzad Shams and Trisha Maharaj argue ([link removed]) , some of those senators are directly contradicting their previous filibuster stances.
“Any senator who believed the filibuster should not be allowed to undermine our economy when it came to the debt ceiling should apply that same logic not only to protect voting rights but to counter all anti-democratic policies,” they write.
“They should not allow this archaic procedural tool to continue obstructing a truly multiracial democracy."
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** Combating Today’s Rent Crisis
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This week’s inflation numbers confirmed trends Roosevelt experts had noted throughout 2021.
“Continued COVID disruptions on the supply and demand sides continue to drive the major contributions to inflation this month as we've seen over the past year,” Roosevelt’s Lauren Melodia explains ([link removed]) .
Among the biggest contributors this month: housing.
The solutions, as Sammi Aibinder and Lindsay Owens wrote in a Roosevelt brief ([link removed]) : massive investment in affordable housing and rent stabilization policies.
“This approach must start with, at the bare minimum, passing the Build Back Better agenda with its proposed investments in housing supply.”
Learn more in “No Room for Rent: Addressing Rising Rent Prices through Public Investment and Public Power.” ([link removed])
** What We’re Reading
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The Lesson America Refuses to Learn about COVID-19 and the Economy [feat. Roosevelt’s Aaron Sojourner] ([link removed]) - ([link removed]) Vox
The US Economy Has Been “More than Fine” without Your Student Debt ([link removed]) - Business Insider
A New Era for the American Worker ([link removed]) - Vox
Why Interest Rates Aren’t Really the Right Tool to Control Inflation ([link removed]) - MarketWatch
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