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** Building on the Student Debt Win
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President Biden’s decision ([link removed]) to cancel student debt—up to $10,000 for those making under $125,000, and an additional $10,000 for Pell Grant recipients—is a game changer.
It will offer desperately needed relief for millions of people; provide long-term economic and societal benefits; and may even reduce inflation, Roosevelt Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz explains in The Atlantic ([link removed]) .
In acknowledging decades of policy failures that fueled intergenerational inequalities ([link removed]) and widened the racial wealth gap ([link removed]) , it’s “a decisive example of policymaking that directly seeks to repair past mistakes,” Roosevelt’s Suzanne Kahn argues in The Nation ([link removed]) .
And it builds major momentum for what we need next: free college.
“Biden took a step toward an approach to higher education that would focus not on the individual rewards but on the social and economic productivity it can generate for our whole society,” Kahn writes ([link removed]) .
“To finish the job, we need a free-college policy.”
Learn more in A Progressive Framework for Free College ([link removed]) .
** A New Vision for Climate Migration
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Across the globe, the climate crisis has forced people to leave their homes and seek new livelihoods—both within and across borders. And the levels of climate migration will only increase as the impacts of climate change become more severe.
“In the absence of a bold, progressive vision for future migration, a dangerous feedback loop between increased migration and authoritarian politics has taken hold,” Roosevelt fellows Deepak Bhargava and Richard Stolz caution in a new report ([link removed]) .
Their solution: the Statue of Liberty Plan, which would embrace a new narrative and policies to “counter authoritarian appeals, advance national economic and cultural renewal, and strengthen and protect multiracial democracy.”
Read more in The Statue of Liberty Plan: A Progressive Vision for Migration in the Age of Climate Change ([link removed]) .
** What We’re Reading and Listening To
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The Rebirth of Industrial Policy [podcast feat. Roosevelt’s Felicia Wong] ([link removed]) - The Weeds
Pace of Climate Change Sends Economists Back to Drawing Board [feat. Roosevelt’s Rhiana Gunn-Wright] ([link removed]) - New York Times
What Will Happen to Black Workers’ Gains if There’s a Recession? ([link removed]) - New York Times
When Private Equity Takes Over a Nursing Home ([link removed]) - The New Yorker
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