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September 29, 2021 at 8:54 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Three Reasons We Need the Build Back Better Act

Roosevelt Rundown: Three Reasons We Need the Build Back Better Act Sustained, sustainable, and equitable prosperity is within reach. The Roosevelt Rundown features our top stories of the week. View this in your browser and share with your friends. …

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September 24, 2021 at 2:03 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: The Fed's COVID Response, Analyzed

Roosevelt Institute The Roosevelt Rundown features our top stories of the week. View this in your browser and share with your friends. A More Equitable Monetary Policy In March and April of 2020, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve began to…

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September 17, 2021 at 7:04 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Communities over Corporations

Roosevelt Institute The Roosevelt Rundown features our top stories of the week. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Public Money for Public Purpose Our country is at an “inflection point,” as President Biden said in a speech yesterday. The Build Ba…

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September 10, 2021 at 8:06 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: How Stock Buybacks Hurt Workers

Roosevelt Institute The Roosevelt Rundown features our top stories of the week. View this in your browser and share with your friends. A Tax on Buybacks Stock buybacks are back on the rise—continuing a trend supercharged by the 2017 Trump tax cuts. Now, amid ongoing …

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September 3, 2021 at 7:33 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: A New Vision for the Economy

Roosevelt Institute The Roosevelt Rundown features our top stories of the week. View this in your browser and share with your friends. A New Economic Paradigm Emerges President Biden’s economic agenda has held some surprises. Specifically, we’re seeing the influence …

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August 27, 2021 at 12:37 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Why Climate Change Must Be a Fed Priority

Roosevelt Institute The Roosevelt Rundown features our top stories of the week. View this in your browser and share with your friends. The Fed’s Climate Responsibility The climate crisis poses grave threats to the economy and to financial stability. “But . . . what s…

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August 20, 2021 at 4:22 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: The Fed’s Pivotal Moment

Roosevelt Institute The Roosevelt Rundown features our top stories of the week. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Priorities for the Next Federal Reserve Chair The next four-year Federal Reserve (Fed) chair term will begin in February 2022, and w…

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August 13, 2021 at 6:06 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: How to Build an Equitable and Sustainable Economy

Roosevelt Institute The Roosevelt Rundown features our top stories of the week. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Planning for the Public Good In addition to approving a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure framework on Tuesday, the Senate passe…

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August 6, 2021 at 8:24 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Not Just New Policy, New Politics

Roosevelt Institute The Roosevelt Rundown features our top stories of the week. View this in your browser and share with your friends. The New Economics Is Here This week, the Senate continued moving forward with negotiations on the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastruct…

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July 29, 2021 at 6:28 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Public Infrastructure for the Public Interest

Roosevelt Institute The Roosevelt Rundown features our top stories of the week. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Why Infrastructure Should Be Public Yesterday, the Senate voted to move forward with the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure frame…

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July 23, 2021 at 8:24 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: How to Manage a Boom

Roosevelt Institute The Roosevelt Rundown features our top stories of the week. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Full Employment, Reimagined The COVID-19 recession was the shortest on record.  But to ensure that the current rebound lasts—and tha…

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July 16, 2021 at 8:27 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: AOC’s Advice for the Fed

Roosevelt Institute The Roosevelt Rundown features our top stories of the week. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Don’t Fight the Boom Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) had a clear message for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell this week: Don…

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July 9, 2021 at 9:30 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: What Has Pushed Biden Left

Roosevelt Institute A once-in-a-lifetime paradigm shift. View this in your browser and share with your friends. A Sea Change in Economics Today, President Biden signed an executive order that aims to promote competition in the US economy and increase antitrust enforcement. Few …

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July 2, 2021 at 8:45 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: What the Filibuster Is Blocking

Roosevelt Institute The popular policies stalled for decades. View this in your browser and share with your friends. An Obstacle to Progress Voting rights. LGBTQ+ protections. Gender equity. The filibuster is currently preventing the passage of essential, broadly popular reform…

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June 25, 2021 at 4:17 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: What Rubin, Stiglitz, and Wong Agree on

Roosevelt Institute We need to invest more now. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Beyond the Bipartisan Compromise This week’s preliminary infrastructure agreement between White House negotiators and a bipartisan group of senators would amount to $1.2 trill…

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June 17, 2021 at 10:05 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: What Juneteenth Really Means

Roosevelt Institute Elevating the truth and fighting for Black liberation. View this in your browser and share with your friends. To Freedom On June 19, 1865—a full two-and-a-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation—the end of chattel slavery became a reality for the ensla…

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June 11, 2021 at 1:11 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Cancel Student Debt, Reduce the Racial Wealth Gap

Roosevelt Institute Why more debt cancellation is more progressive. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Student Debt Cancellation IS Progressive The numbers are crunched. The findings are clear. “Today there's more evidence from @rooseveltinst that cancelling…

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June 4, 2021 at 8:35 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Bretton Woods for the 21st Century

Roosevelt Institute How this year’s G7 summit could create a new economic order. View this in your browser and share with your friends. A New Global Consensus Reeling from a devastating crisis, questioning the economic assumptions of a generation, the international community ga…

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May 28, 2021 at 12:02 PM

Roosevelt Rundown Recommends

Roosevelt Institute What to read 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 Reading Are We Entering a New Political E…

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May 21, 2021 at 4:00 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: A Checklist for Biden's Economic Plans

Roosevelt Institute Four questions policymakers should be asking now. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Structural Change Starts with Policy Structure One goal of the American Families Plan, the latest of President Biden’s major economic proposals: to restru…

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May 14, 2021 at 5:32 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: More Is Better. And Smarter.

Roosevelt Institute How to boost Biden’s infrastructure investments. View this in your browser and share with your friends. The Case for Deficit-Financed Investment When asked last week about his proposed corporate tax hike—pitched alongside the American Jobs Plan last month—Pre…

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May 7, 2021 at 5:53 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: How to Interpret That Jobs Report

Roosevelt Institute Full employment requires greater action. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Jobs Day Takeaways The worse-than-expected April jobs report can’t tell us everything about the course of economic recovery to come: As Paul Krugman wrote before …

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April 28, 2021 at 4:44 PM

Biden’s First 100 Days

Roosevelt Institute Dear John, A presidency is not always defined by its first 100 days. But as the first president to ascribe significance to the milestone, FDR knew well that the early days of an administration are both formative and demonstrative—signaling the dire…

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April 22, 2021 at 6:50 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: The Green Standard

Roosevelt Institute The economic opportunity of net zero. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Note: The Rundown will be on hiatus next week, but stay tuned for analysis and insights on the first 100 days of the Biden administration from Roosevelt President &…

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April 16, 2021 at 8:53 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: The Hidden Rules of Gender

Roosevelt Institute There’s no economy without care. View this in your browser and share with your friends. We at Roosevelt mourn the continued loss of Black and brown lives to police brutality. For the justice and accountability our communities deserve, we all must work to disma…

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April 9, 2021 at 6:55 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: The Inflation Illusion

Roosevelt Institute Why Tuesday’s numbers will look artificially high. View this in your browser and share with your friends. How to Interpret Next Week’s Inflation Numbers When the latest inflation numbers come out on April 13, they’ll look a bit higher than usual, and opponent…

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April 2, 2021 at 7:40 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: The American Jobs Plan, Analyzed

Roosevelt Institute A powerful vision and the fight for more. View this in your browser and share with your friends. The Scale and Structure of the American Jobs Plan The American Jobs Plan—the $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal unveiled by the Biden administration this week…

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March 25, 2021 at 8:39 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: What $3 Trillion Can Do

Roosevelt Institute Public investment at the scale of today’s crises. View this in your browser and share with your friends. The Era of Large Numbers With the American Rescue Plan now law, the Biden administration is preparing a major, more permanent follow-up: $3 trillion in i…

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March 19, 2021 at 6:30 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Stop AAPI Hate

Roosevelt Institute Dismantle anti-Asian values and systems. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Defend AAPI Life The murder of eight people, including six Asian women, in Atlanta this week is a profound tragedy—for the families and loved ones of those lost, …

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March 12, 2021 at 8:15 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: An FDR-Size Achievement

Roosevelt Institute The American Rescue Plan, and what’s next. View this in your browser and share with your friends. A Paradigm Shift Yesterday was historic. One year into a pandemic that has taken over 530,000 US lives and left millions without jobs or economic security, the…

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February 26, 2021 at 11:01 AM

Roosevelt Rundown: Powell, Stiglitz, and the Case for Stimulus

Roosevelt Institute The recovery is far from complete. View this in your browser and share with your friends. How to Rescue the US Economy This week, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell declined to say whether he was “cool or uncool” with passing the American Rescue Plan. But …

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February 19, 2021 at 7:23 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: The Anti-Racism of Baby Bonds

Roosevelt Institute Honor Black History Month by closing the racial wealth gap. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Baby Bonds, Reparations, and the Racial Wealth Gap $163,660. That’s the racial wealth gap between the median white household and median Black h…

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February 12, 2021 at 8:07 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Why a Wealth Tax Is Constitutional

Roosevelt Institute It’s legal, and it’s just. View this in your browser and share with your friends. The Legal and Economic Justifications for a Wealth Tax Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has an early priority as she begins her new role on the Senate Finance Committee.  “My firs…

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February 5, 2021 at 8:03 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Go Big, Go Bold

Roosevelt Institute Significant stimulus is necessary now. View this in your browser and share with your friends. We Still Need Stimulus President Biden’s stimulus and economic relief plan may be nearing a reconciliation vote in the coming weeks—not a moment too soon, and not …

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January 29, 2021 at 8:37 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Building Wealth for Gen Z

Roosevelt Institute How policy can help new labor market entrants. View this in your browser and share with your friends. A Gen Z Policy Agenda “We're a long way from a full recovery," Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said this week. That checks out. One year into the pande…

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January 22, 2021 at 7:58 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Democracy’s Day

Roosevelt Institute We can meet the moment by leading with inclusion. View this in your browser and share with your friends. There Is Always Light “Somehow we've weathered and witnesseda nation that isn't brokenbut simply unfinished.” - Amanda Gorman The traumas of the last mo…

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January 15, 2021 at 8:55 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: It’s Time to Transform

Roosevelt Institute In 2021, we can’t afford to limit our ambitions. View this in your browser and share with your friends. The Case for a True New Deal President-elect Joe Biden’s newly unveiled $1.9 trillion stimulus plan would be a major leap forward, and an immediate salve…

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January 8, 2021 at 7:37 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: How Democracy Will Win

Roosevelt Institute Dismantle white supremacy in our institutions. View this in your browser and share with your friends. The Power of Multiracial Democracy We witnessed an act of terror on Wednesday: insurrectionists, bearing symbols of historical racist violence, attempting …

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December 18, 2020 at 9:07 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: The Next Stimulus

Roosevelt Institute Today is only a start. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Note: The Roosevelt Rundown will be on hiatus until January 8. Have a safe and happy holiday season, and see you back here in 2021! The Case for Progressive Stimulus Today’s possi…

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December 11, 2020 at 6:58 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: How Much Stimulus We Need

Roosevelt Institute Current congressional proposals won’t do enough. View this in your browser and share with your friends. The Right Number When—even whether—Congress will reach a deal on stimulus remains an open question. In the framework’s current $908 billion iteration, ho…

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December 4, 2020 at 8:13 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: The Greatest Risk

Roosevelt Institute We can’t afford to do too little. View this in your browser and share with your friends. People Need Stimulus COVID-19 cases are rising. Job growth is slowing. As CDC Director Robert Redfield describes it, this winter could be “the most difficult time in th…

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November 13, 2020 at 9:06 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: What Day One Looks Like

Roosevelt Institute A progressive to-do list for the transition and beyond. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Note: The Roosevelt Rundown will be on hiatus until December 4. Personnel Is Policy When President-elect Joe Biden takes office on January 20, he’ll…

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October 30, 2020 at 5:20 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: It’s Not Too Late

Roosevelt Institute We can save our economy and planet by acting now. View this in your browser and share with your friends. The Economy of Tomorrow This week’s Q3 GDP toplines mask two central facts: 1) Lower-income Americans are experiencing a vastly different economy than t…

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October 23, 2020 at 5:08 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: A Lifeline for Labor

Roosevelt Institute Those with and without jobs need support now. View this in your browser and share with your friends. More than a Paycheck Amid a record 77,640 new COVID-19 cases yesterday and historic levels of long-term unemployment, US economic recovery could be in jeopa…

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October 19, 2020 at 1:03 PM

TODAY — EconCon Presents

Roosevelt Institute EconCon Presents:Building an Economy That Works for All of UsMonday, October 19 | 1:00 PM ET EconCon Presents is happening TODAY at 1 PM. You do not want to miss this virtual event. Join us and Register now! While the annual conference, EconCon …

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October 16, 2020 at 4:40 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Averting a K-Shaped Recovery

Roosevelt Institute Spend now to prevent long-term damage. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Why We Must Spend Now Per two new studies, the CARES Act saved millions from poverty at the beginning of this pandemic. But with most aid depleted or expired, and …

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October 9, 2020 at 7:00 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Rethinking Economic Growth

Roosevelt Institute We need new metrics of societal well-being. View this in your browser and share with your friends. An Economic Growth Obsession Public health and economic health shouldn’t be mutually exclusive. But as economic experts argue in a new Bloomberg piece, societ…

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October 2, 2020 at 6:14 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Beyond Transparency

Roosevelt Institute Regulate online political advertising. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Regulating Digital Mis/Disinformation As the world has learned in recent years, online misinformation and disinformation pose grave threats to the integrity of our …

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September 18, 2020 at 8:19 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: Black Women Best

Roosevelt Institute The framework we need for an equitable economy. View this in your browser and share with your friends. Black Women Best Few have been harmed more by the COVID-19 crisis than Black women, who remain unemployed at far higher levels than white men and women ei…

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September 11, 2020 at 6:03 PM

Roosevelt Rundown: 50 Years of Short-Termism

Roosevelt Institute What “social responsibility” really means. View this in your browser and share with your friends. The Social Responsibility of Business Fifty years ago, Milton Friedman declared in the New York Times Magazine that “the social responsibility of business is t…

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