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** Understanding the Inflation Reduction Act
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With Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s support now secured, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) could be heading to a vote within days.
Before it does, catch up on the latest analysis of the bill from Roosevelt experts.
In a new blog series ([link removed]) , we’re digging deeper into the specifics of the IRA—how it will reduce inflation, strengthen our economy, and drive long-term investments in the green industries we need; and how the prices extracted in compromise will fall heaviest on Black and brown communities.
Read more:
* “Four Reasons the Inflation Reduction Act Might Be Better at Fighting Inflation than Projected” ([link removed]) by Mike Konczal
* “How the Inflation Reduction Act’s Tax Provisions Will Strengthen Our Economy” ([link removed]) by Emily DiVito
* “The Inflation Reduction Act: A Climate Down Payment, but Doubts on Environmental Justice” ([link removed]) by Lew Daly
* “The Unprecedented Green Industrial Policy Wins in the Inflation Reduction Act” ([link removed]) by Todd N. Tucker and Sunny Malhotra
** More than Consumers
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For decades, policymakers have viewed their constituents as consumers above all else. Not as parents or workers or students or voters, but as buyers in marketplaces.
It wasn't always that way. And understanding history can help us now, Roosevelt’s Suzanne Kahn argues in a new report.
“To explain today’s progressive agenda, we need to be able to measure the health of the economy and society in ways that go beyond purchasing power,” Kahn writes.
Read more in More than Consumers: Post-Neoliberal Identities and Economic Governance ([link removed]) .
** Jobs Day Takeaways
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With 528,000 jobs added in July, “Payroll job growth this month is higher (as a percent of employment) than 93 percent of monthly job numbers since 1980,” Roosevelt’s Mike Konczal tweeted ([link removed]) .
“[U]nemployment rate gaps by race . . . have shrunk faster in this recovery than prior ones,” wrote ([link removed]) Labor Department Chief Economist Joelle Gamble.
But as both Gamble and Roosevelt’s Ira Regmi note, more work remains.
“While unemployment rates decline, [it’s] important to remember that sustained periods of growth are necessary to close the large and persistent gaps between employment levels of Black and White folks!” Regmi tweeted ([link removed]) .
** What We’re Reading
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First on CNN: Top Economists Say Democrats’ Health Care and Climate Package Will Put “Downward Pressure on Inflation” [feat. Roosevelt’s Joseph Stiglitz] ([link removed]) - CNN
Sinema’s Big Yes Will Give Democrats a Major Opening ([link removed]) - Washington Post
The US Has Now Regained All the Jobs It Lost in the Pandemic ([link removed]) - Business Insider
The Upstart Union Challenging Starbucks ([link removed]) - The New Yorker
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