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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · Aug 14
In outlining his reason for a national program of social insurance, FDR stated:

"It is our plain duty to provide for that security upon which welfare depends."

We lay out why that goal is as essential today: #ProtectSocialSecurity 1/3 🧵
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The goal of Social Security is to mitigate economic risk, particularly the risk of poverty when someone loses their ability to receive market-based income through employment. All people age, and no one can foresee with absolute certainty when death or disability may occur. Because these events are inevitable, yet the timing is unpredictable, it makes sense to protect against them.
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 3d
Corporations are rolling out new AI tech that may technically comply with data privacy laws, but opens up new ways to control and exploit workers.

Workers, researchers, and tech experts agree that we need a new generation of labor and tech protections: https://bit.ly/4oeGBKn
The “Privacy” Trap
Corporations are rolling out new technologies that may technically comply with data privacy laws, but actually create more ways to control and exploit workers. This brief offers concrete principles fo...
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 3d
Citizens United has had catastrophic impacts on American democracy.

Unlimited spending is entrenched, but @rfunkfordham.bsky.social offers a suite of reforms that can get concentrated wealth out of our political system.
Line graph titled 'The US Is Now a Flawed, Not Full, Democracy' showing a decline in the US democracy index from 2006 to 2024, with a significant drop marked at the 2010 Citizens United ruling. Data sourced from the Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index. The index value decreases from above 8.2 in 2006 to below 8.0 after 2016, entering the flawed democracy category.
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 3d
Data released last week shows that Americans’ trust in the media has hit a record low.

@bilalb.bsky.social calls for a news media ecosystem that prioritizes providing information over maximizing profit—and explains why public media can take us there.
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Line graph titled 'Trust in Mass Media, by Age, 2001-2025,' showing the percentage of trust and confidence in the media across different age groups over time. Four age groups (18-29, 30-49, 50-64, 65+) are represented with different colored lines, indicating varying levels of trust that generally decrease with age. Data from Gallup.
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 2d
#ICYMI: The week’s top stories

✅ Americans trust public media more than corporate media
✅ Zooming in on the overlooked link between disability and poverty
✅ A preview of SCOTUS' fall agenda

More in our #RooseveltRundown ⬇️
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For-Profit News Lost America’s Trust. Public Media Can Rebuild It. - Roosevelt Institute
Roosevelt Rundown: Americans Want a Trustworthy Press—Public Media Can Deliver, Zooming in on the Link Between Disability and Poverty, What We’re Talking About, and What We’re Reading
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 2d
Over at the @rooseveltinstitute.org, Rachel Funk Fordham has a new report on Citizens United and the Decline of US Democracy: Assessing the Decision’s Impact 15 Years Later.
Citizens United and the Decline of US Democracy: Assessing the Decision’s Impact 15 Years Later - Roosevelt Institute
In a new analysis, Rachel Funk Fordham examines the 15-year legacy of Citizens United, assessing its impact on democracy through new evidence and political science research and offering recommendation...
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 2d
Week in review: @lookheron.bsky.social on neoliberalism and authoritarianism in higher ed, Beau Baumann on losing and regaining administrative legitimacy, and Matthew Dimick on the dreaded double distortion argument against predistribution.

Plus, the best of LPE from around the web! 🧵👇
Weekly Roundup: Oct 10
Luke Herrine on neoliberalism and authoritarianism in higher ed, Beau Baumann on losing and regaining administrative legitimacy, and Matthew Dimick on the dreaded double distortion argument against…
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 2d
1 in 4 Americans has a disability. Millions of disabled Americans face deep inequality as they are 2Xs as likely to live below the poverty line.

This new coalition is a big step towards a more just economy and expands our efforts to ensure every American can partake in a #GoodLife.
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 5d
Last month @rooseveltinstitute.org and NASI launched the Disability Economic Policy & Research Consortium. Read my colleague Lena Bilik's latest below on how a focus on this oft ignore population is crucial to building an inclusive economy.

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Economic Policy Is Disability Policy: Launching the Disability Economic Policy & Research Consortium - Roosevelt Institute
When we apply a disability lens to economic policy and research, we zoom in on people who deeply understand the flaws in our systems and are more likely to interact with public programs and services. ...
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Brian Galle @bdgesq.bsky.social · 3d
I have a book-length exploration of the economic and tax policy implications of this fact coming next month with @rooseveltinstitute.org : "How to Tax the Rich." You're going to like the retail price (it starts with 0 and ends with 0). Have your download fingers ready.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 3d
“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”
Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money
Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 3d
Data released last week shows that Americans’ trust in the media has hit a record low.

@bilalb.bsky.social calls for a news media ecosystem that prioritizes providing information over maximizing profit—and explains why public media can take us there.
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/t...
Line graph titled 'Trust in Mass Media, by Age, 2001-2025,' showing the percentage of trust and confidence in the media across different age groups over time. Four age groups (18-29, 30-49, 50-64, 65+) are represented with different colored lines, indicating varying levels of trust that generally decrease with age. Data from Gallup.
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 3d
Citizens United has had catastrophic impacts on American democracy.

Unlimited spending is entrenched, but @rfunkfordham.bsky.social offers a suite of reforms that can get concentrated wealth out of our political system.
Line graph titled 'The US Is Now a Flawed, Not Full, Democracy' showing a decline in the US democracy index from 2006 to 2024, with a significant drop marked at the 2010 Citizens United ruling. Data sourced from the Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index. The index value decreases from above 8.2 in 2006 to below 8.0 after 2016, entering the flawed democracy category.
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Sam Pizzigati @sgp.bsky.social · 5d
Just out from the @rooseveltinstitute.org: a new report on Big Money’s current — and enormous — impact on U.S. politics. #inequality #billionaires rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10d
15 years of Citizens United: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications... #moneyinpolitics
Citizens United and the Decline of US Democracy: Assessing the Decision’s Impact 15 Years Later - Roosevelt Institute
In a new analysis, Rachel Funk Fordham examines the 15-year legacy of Citizens United, assessing its impact on democracy through new evidence and political science research and offering recommendation...
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 3d
Corporations are rolling out new AI tech that may technically comply with data privacy laws, but opens up new ways to control and exploit workers.

Workers, researchers, and tech experts agree that we need a new generation of labor and tech protections: https://bit.ly/4oeGBKn
The “Privacy” Trap
Corporations are rolling out new technologies that may technically comply with data privacy laws, but actually create more ways to control and exploit workers. This brief offers concrete principles fo...
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 4d
Black women’s employment can serve as an indicator for the rest of the economy.

Economist and Roosevelt Fellow @itsafronomics.bsky.social joined @bmluse.bsky.social on @npr.org to discuss how.

🎧Listen👇: www.npr.org/2025/10/08/nx-s1-...
Is the economy slowing? Ask Black women. : It's Been a Minute
Black women’s unemployment rate is hovering at 6.7% — higher than the rate for white workers. Is it a sign the broader economy could sour? These economists say yes.Black women are the 'canary in the economic coal mine,' says Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman. She's the author of The Double Tax: How Women of Color are Overcharged and Underpaid. Brittany speaks to Anna and Ofranama Biu, chief economist and senior research director at the Maven Collaborative, about why Black women's unemployment is on the rise and why this trend could be a troubling sign for the rest of the country.Follow Brittany Luse on Instagram: @bmluseFor handpicked podcast recommendations every week, subscribe to NPR’s Pod Club newsletter at npr.org/podclub.
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 4d
As our Director of Industrial Policy and Trade points out, a government that builds smartly should be the goal (even when our positions differ on implementation or the problem/s to solve).

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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 11d
The lessons Betony draws - that climate policy needs to be conceptualized with state capacity, bureaucratic, and legal hurdles in mind - are relevant whether your think the next generation of climate policy should be all about jobs, national security, affordability, or something else.
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 4d
Using her experience implementing investment policy, @betonyjones.bsky.social offers a path for future implementation that strengthens our economy while creating jobs, lowering costs, and not furthering environmental harm.
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Tying Labor Standards to Clean Energy Incentives: How Biden’s Department of Energy Tackled Climate Industrial Policy - Roosevelt Institute
In a new analysis, Betony Jones explores the efficacy of the Biden administration's incentive-based, equity-conscious industrial strategy approach and the role of government in shaping markets. Despit...
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 4d
Corporations call it "privacy-preserving," but this new AI tech isn't all that it seems.

Our new brief w/@datasociety.bsky.social + CoWorker exposes how this tech harms + exploits workers and what we can do to strengthen worker protections + power in the digital age: datasociety.net/library/the-...
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 4d
As corporations deploy new tech and AI to collect and analyze data at scale, the impact on workers needs to be front and center.

New @datasociety.bsky.social, @powerswitchaction.org & Coworker report proposes durable protections for workers in the new digital age: bit.ly/4h1N9tm
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Corporations are rolling out new technologies that may technically comply with data privacy laws, but actually create more ways to control and exploit workers. This brief offers concrete principles fo...
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 5d
Last month @rooseveltinstitute.org and NASI launched the Disability Economic Policy & Research Consortium. Read my colleague Lena Bilik's latest below on how a focus on this oft ignore population is crucial to building an inclusive economy.

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Economic Policy Is Disability Policy: Launching the Disability Economic Policy & Research Consortium - Roosevelt Institute
When we apply a disability lens to economic policy and research, we zoom in on people who deeply understand the flaws in our systems and are more likely to interact with public programs and services. ...
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 5d
Pushing “market logic” into higher education has made the wealthy schools richer and the poorly resourced schools poorer.

@lookheron.bsky.social builds on his arguments and findings in his recent report for @lpeblog.bsky.social.

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 5d
Climate change is already impacting our economy, whether it is insurance fragility due to increasing climate disasters or the impact on labor participation across the globe.

Our #FedLit newsletter provides a good foundation for understanding the stakes.
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Fed Lit is a monthly newsletter from the Roosevelt Institute offering essential climate reading for Federal Reserve staff, leadership, and other interested parties. Click to read Fed Lit, a Substack p...
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 5d
Our vision for the #GoodLife includes ensuring disabled Americans and their experiences are an integral part of economic policy.

Our partnership to co-launch the Disability Economic Policy Research Consortium is a part of this commitment. Learn more 👇
https://bit.ly/4q0NDDZ
Graphic from the Roosevelt Institute featuring the quote "People with disabilities are up close and personal with our fraying social safety nets, our lack of federal labor protections, and the indignities of means-tested and underfunded public programs that put undue administrative burden on people simply seeking economic freedom and a dignified life. For this reason, listening to the lived economic experience of disabled people can show us all where the cracks are throughout our public policy."
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 5d
Deputy Director of Democratic Institutions lays out the cases to watch in this SCOTUS term.

With the influence this court has had on landmark decisions and precedent, the outcomes will have long-lasting impacts.
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Shahrzad Shams @shahrzadshams.bsky.social · 7d
A new SCOTUS term begins today. What fresh hell awaits our flailing democracy this time around?🧵
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Shahrzad Shams @shahrzadshams.bsky.social · 6d
Important piece by @lookheron.bsky.social tracing how the steady neoliberalization of higher education has sowed fertile ground for its takeover by authoritarians
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 6d
Today, @lookheron.bsky.social argues that, for higher education, it's been one battle after another: how the neoliberal era laid the groundwork for the recent authoritarian turn.
The Neoliberal Foundation of the Authoritarian Turn in Higher Education
Recent authoritarian attacks on higher education mark a significant shift from the neoliberal era, which celebrated institutional independence from the state, the role of education in boosting worker…
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 6d
AI infrastructure is surging, but broader US manufacturing investment is slowing.

The risk: an AI boom that enriches tech firms more than people. A smart industrial policy will translate AI’s surge into quality jobs.

An 🎯 piece from @ianrharnett.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c7b9453e-f...
The AI capex endgame is approaching
The rapid building of excess capacity both extends bubbles and ultimately bursts them
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