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September 4, 2020 at 5:01 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Labor Power Reads

Roosevelt Institute Rebuild worker voice. Raise wages. View this in your browser and share with your friends.   2020 has been a trying year for workers—for those deemed essential and exposed to the worst of a pandemic; for those whose work has doubled with full-time childcare; a…

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August 28, 2020 at 7:55 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: The Promise of Baby Bonds

Roosevelt Institute Make capital a birthright. View this in your browser and share with your friends. How Baby Bonds Could Reduce the Racial Wealth Gap In another tragic week, which began with the shooting of Jacob Blake and saw the murder of two protestors, a landmark New Jers…

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August 21, 2020 at 8:25 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Break with Convention

Roosevelt Institute Shift policy, shift power. View this in your browser and share with your friends. The Policy Bedrock of a True New Deal Accepting the Democratic nomination for president 88 years ago, FDR pitched a transformative plan for a nation in crisis: a New Deal to sh…

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August 14, 2020 at 5:13 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: A True New Deal

Roosevelt Institute The blueprint for a better economy. View this in your browser and share with your friends. A New Era This moment of crisis demands bold change: Roosevelt has the blueprint. This week, Roosevelt unveiled a structural policy agenda that both speaks to the imme…

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August 7, 2020 at 5:30 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Our Economy, Our Government

Roosevelt Institute Reclaiming power for the people will require a true, inclusive New Deal for the 21st century. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Coming Soon: A True New Deal On Monday, the Roosevelt Institute is releasing a new foundational report that, …

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July 31, 2020 at 9:05 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Extending the UI Supplement Is the Priority

Roosevelt Institute Here’s what else government can do now. View this in your browser and share with your friends. The UI Supplement Is Necessary for Recovery On the heels of the worst economic quarter in American history, the $600-a-week unemployment insurance (UI) supplement …

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July 24, 2020 at 6:04 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Preventing the Unemployment Cliff

Roosevelt Institute Extend UI and guarantee fair wages. View this in your browser and share with your friends. We Need a Fair Wage Guarantee For the one in five American workers currently drawing unemployment benefits, the end of this month brings a grim reality: the expiration…

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July 17, 2020 at 6:22 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Before the Flood

Roosevelt Institute To avoid market collapse, we must address climate risk. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Preventing a Climate-Induced Housing Crash This week brought two major climate developments in the presidential race: a Trump administration rule a…

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July 10, 2020 at 8:11 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: A Fair Wage Guarantee

Roosevelt Institute Congress could raise workers’ wages—and rebalance power in the economy. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Raise Wages, Reverse Economic Inequity With the CARES Act’s expanded unemployment benefits set to expire by the end of the month, C…

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June 26, 2020 at 8:51 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: The Country We Deserve

Roosevelt Institute Our institutions are not immutable. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Note: The Roosevelt Rundown will be off next week for the Fourth of July holiday. State Insurance Reforms and the Trade-Offs of a Public Option If the first wave ever…

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June 19, 2020 at 1:05 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: To Freedom

Roosevelt Institute Commemorating the promise of equality on Juneteenth. View this in your browser and share with your friends. We at Roosevelt are mourning the continued assault on Black lives, from COVID-19, police brutality, and beyond. We stand in solidarity with you. Junete…

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June 12, 2020 at 6:27 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Dismantling Anti-Black Economics

Roosevelt Institute Change the paradigm by empowering Black economists. View this in your browser and share with your friends. We at Roosevelt are mourning the continued assault on Black lives, from COVID-19, police brutality, and beyond. We stand in solidarity with you. How Eco…

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June 5, 2020 at 5:03 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Defend Black Life

Roosevelt Institute The system won’t reform itself. View this in your browser and share with your friends. We at Roosevelt are mourning the continued assault on Black lives, from COVID-19, police brutality, and beyond. We stand in solidarity with you. #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd The…

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May 29, 2020 at 7:37 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Reimagining Social Insurance

Roosevelt Institute A more humane economy requires greater economic security. View this in your browser and share with your friends. We at Roosevelt are mourning the continued assault on Black lives, from COVID-19, police brutality, and beyond. We stand in solidarity with you. H…

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May 20, 2020 at 7:44 PM

Roosevelt Rundown Recommends

Roosevelt Institute What to watch, read, and listen to over the long weekend. View this in your browser and share with your friends. The regular Roosevelt Rundown will be back next Friday.We wish you and yours a happy and safe Memorial Day weekend! What We’re Watching Paul Krugm…

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May 15, 2020 at 7:32 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: The HEROES Act, Explained

Roosevelt Institute An equitable response to the COVID-19 pandemic requires structural change. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Austerity Is Not the Answer The need for structural policy change has never been clearer. Nearly 40 percent of low-income Americ…

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May 8, 2020 at 6:40 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: The Economy of Tomorrow

Roosevelt Institute Old ideas won’t solve this unprecedented crisis. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Post-Neoliberalism, Post-Pandemic The Labor Department’s latest unemployment report confirms what over 33 million Americans have experienced firsthand in …

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May 1, 2020 at 5:44 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Four Priorities for Pandemic Relief Efforts

Roosevelt Institute It’s not too late to make better policy choices. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Preserving Lives and Livelihoods In the past six weeks, one in five Americans employed in February lost their jobs, and over 60,000 lost their lives to CO…

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April 24, 2020 at 6:35 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Empower Workers Now

Roosevelt Institute Give frontline workers a voice in our nation’s pandemic response. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Building Worker Voice on the Frontlines The dual crises of COVID-19 continued to ravage the nation this week, with deaths now surpassing …

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April 16, 2020 at 7:38 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: We Are the Economy

Roosevelt Institute People need more than a check. They need a new economy. View this in your browser and share with your friends.   The CARES Act and Beyond The coronavirus crisis has now eliminated over 22 million jobs—about the same amount created in the decade since the Gre…

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April 10, 2020 at 6:17 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: The Inequality of COVID-19

Roosevelt Institute How the coronavirus crisis is exacerbating structural injustice. View this in your browser and share with your friends.   Dismantling Inequality and Building Economic Resilience As the New York Times editorial board writes in a new series on inequality and a…

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April 3, 2020 at 8:29 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Keep People on Payrolls

Roosevelt Institute And protect unemployed and self-employed Americans. View this in your browser and share with your friends.   Preserving Payrolls and Supporting Unemployed People This week’s economic news has been sobering beyond precedent: 10 million Americans filed unemplo…

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March 27, 2020 at 8:41 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Stimulus Is Not Enough

Roosevelt Institute Learning from the Great Recession and World War II. View this in your browser and share with your friends.   Beyond the CARES Act With more confirmed coronavirus cases than any other nation and a record 3.3 million unemployment claims filed last week, the Am…

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March 20, 2020 at 7:08 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Combatting the Coronavirus Recession

Roosevelt Institute Building a more resilient economy. View this in your browser and share with your friends.   A Forward-Thinking Policy Response to the Coronavirus Recession Mass layoffs, record unemployment claims, and an unprecedented demand shock: With GDP projected to dec…

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March 13, 2020 at 6:19 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: What the Coronavirus Is Teaching Us

Roosevelt Institute Government can do things markets can’t or won’t. View this in your browser and share with your friends.   The Lessons of COVID-19 Uniquely ill-equipped for the coronavirus pandemic after steep funding cuts, the US is learning anew why public investment and w…

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March 6, 2020 at 6:45 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Women Need Power

Roosevelt Institute Representation is key. View this in your browser and share with your friends. The Fight Goes On On Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren exited the 2020 presidential race, leaving two white men as the frontrunners and many women across the progressive movement won…

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February 28, 2020 at 7:40 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Beyond Black History Month

Roosevelt Institute Centering Blackness to dismantle racism. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Why Reparations Are a National Debt Previewing their forthcoming book, From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century, Roosevelt Senio…

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February 21, 2020 at 7:08 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: About That Trump Budget

Roosevelt Institute The economy needs more public investment, not less. View this in your browser and share with your friends. The Trump Budget Would Be an Economic Calamity President Trump’s 2021 budget could push the American economy to the brink of recession, Roosevelt Fello…

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February 14, 2020 at 8:20 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: How Foreign Policy Can Move Us Beyond Neoliberalism

Roosevelt Institute Don’t fear the deficit; fear underinvestment. View this in your browser and share with your friends. A Post-Neoliberal Foreign Policy “Today’s national security experts need to move beyond the prevailing neoliberal economic philosophy of the past 40 years,” …

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February 7, 2020 at 8:13 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: State of the Union

Roosevelt Institute New progressives offer a temperature check. View this in your browser and share with your friends. A Progressive Response to SOTU In response to a State of the Union speech riddled with inaccuracies, the Progressive Caucus Action Fund served a temperature ch…

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January 31, 2020 at 9:11 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Celebrating Roosevelt's Life and Legacy

Roosevelt Institute And carrying it forward with new progressivism. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Happy Birthday, Mr. President! As FDR once said, “The most serious threat to our institutions comes from those who refuse to face the need for change." T…

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January 24, 2020 at 8:34 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: What Trump Got Wrong at Davos

Roosevelt Institute The economy isn't working for most. View this in your browser and share with your friends.   The 1 Percent President This week at the World Economic Forum’s annual Davos conference, President Trump declared that “the American dream is back bigger, better, an…

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January 17, 2020 at 9:20 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Beyond Neoliberalism

Roosevelt Institute A new progressive worldview is emerging. View this in your browser and share with your friends.   The Rise of New Progressivism For five decades, neoliberal dogma has dominated our politics and policymaking and left millions of Americans behind; today, a new—…

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January 10, 2020 at 7:37 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: New Year, New Progressivism

Roosevelt Institute 2020 deserves a new worldview. View this in your browser and share with your friends.   Beyond Neoliberalism On Wednesday, January 15, the Roosevelt Institute will lead an event dedicated to moving beyond neoliberalism and building an affirmative alternate v…

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December 13, 2019 at 8:00 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Stacey Abrams’s Southern Roadmap

Roosevelt Institute The Southern Economic Advancement Project is ready for equity. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Note: The Roosevelt Rundown will be on hiatus until January 10. Happiest of holidays to you and yours, and see you back here in 2020!   The S…

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December 6, 2019 at 6:27 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Looking Beyond GDP

Roosevelt Institute We need to measure what counts. View this in your browser and share with your friends.   The Movement for New Metrics To assess the true health of our society, we need to measure more than GDP, as Roosevelt Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz, French economist J…

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November 22, 2019 at 8:01 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: How to Lower Prescription Drug Prices

Roosevelt Institute Another big reason why 2020 matters. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Note: The Roosevelt Rundown will be on hiatus next week. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!   How a President Could Cut Drug Prices Executive action could be the ke…

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November 15, 2019 at 9:54 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Why Tax Justice Is Gender Justice

Roosevelt Institute Addressing the hidden rules of gender means taxing the patriarchy. View this in your browser and share with your friends.   The Tax Code’s Hidden Rules of Gender To advance gender (and racial) equity, we must reform the tax code, as the National Women’s Law …

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November 8, 2019 at 8:00 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: What’s Preventing Climate Action

Roosevelt Institute Reclaiming public power can combat a neoliberal crisis. View this in your browser and share with your friends.   How Neoliberalism Drives the Climate Crisis “Our best chance at tackling the climate crisis may well be to transcend neoliberalism,” Roosevelt Fe…

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November 1, 2019 at 1:13 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Here’s How We Pay for It

Roosevelt Institute Spoiler alert: Every 2020 climate plan is affordable. View this in your browser and share with your friends.   Why We Can Afford a Green New Deal Combatting the climate crisis isn’t just affordable; it can boost an economy that’s been operating below capacit…

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October 25, 2019 at 8:44 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: We Can Afford It.

Roosevelt Institute And more public spending is good for the economy, too. View this in your browser and share with your friends.   Why We Need More Public Spending The climate crisis will cost our economy more than we think. As professors Dr. Naomi Oreskes and Nicholas Stern w…

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October 18, 2019 at 6:26 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: How Stock Buybacks Hurt America’s Workforce

Roosevelt Institute It’s time to rewrite the rules to boost investment in workers. View this in your browser and share with your friends.   The Price of Stock Buybacks On Thursday, Roosevelt Institute Fellow Lenore Palladino testified before the House Committee on Financial Ser…

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October 11, 2019 at 4:02 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Remembering the Roosevelt Legacy

Roosevelt Institute Happy 135th birthday, Eleanor! View this in your browser and share with your friends.   2019 Four Freedoms Awards This past weekend, Roosevelt hosted its biennial Four Freedoms Awards ceremony at the FDR Presidential Library & Museum in Hyde Park, New Yo…

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October 4, 2019 at 6:30 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: The Blueprint for a More Democratic Economy

Roosevelt Institute Empowering workers means giving them representation in the workplace. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Giving Workers a Voice To advance worker power and curb rising inequality, we must rewrite the rules of corporate governance. On…

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September 27, 2019 at 6:13 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Student Debt’s Ripple Effects

Roosevelt Institute Ending the student debt crisis can unleash economic growth. View this in your browser and share with your friends.   The Benefits of Student Debt Relief According to a new study on student debt, “Following debt relief, distressed borrowers reduce their in…

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September 20, 2019 at 4:06 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Worker Power Strikes Back

Roosevelt Institute The movement for structural change takes to the streets. View this in your browser and share with your friends.   Two Strikes Across the nation, workers are making their voices heard this week. Nearly 50,000 General Motors workers have been on strike sin…

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September 12, 2019 at 3:19 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Debate *This*

Roosevelt Institute Here’s what the 2020 candidates should be talking about. View this in your browser and share with your friends. The Roosevelt Rundown is an email series featuring the Roosevelt Institute’s top 5 stories of the week. 1. The Racial Wealth Gap and Student De…

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September 6, 2019 at 6:47 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Why Climate Change Is a Civil Rights Issue

Roosevelt Institute A green economy can remedy racial injustice. View this in your browser and share with your friends. The Roosevelt Rundown is an email series featuring the Roosevelt Institute’s top 5 stories of the week. 1. How Progressives Are Shaping the Climate Convers…

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August 30, 2019 at 5:52 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: The Future of Labor Starts Now

Roosevelt Institute Progressive industrial policy is the ticket. View this in your browser and share with your friends. The Roosevelt Rundown is an email series featuring the Roosevelt Institute’s top 5 stories of the week. 1. How We Prioritize Labor in Trade The Democrati…

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August 23, 2019 at 7:16 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: How We Curb Shareholder Power

Roosevelt Institute Momentum is building against shareholder-first ideology. View this in your browser and share with your friends. The Roosevelt Rundown is an email series featuring the Roosevelt Institute’s top 5 stories of the week. 1. The End of Shareholder Dominance …

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