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Universal childcare isn’t just an aspiration—it’s possible. New Mexico is leading the way as the first state to make it real for all residents. 🧵 1/3 www.governor.state.nm.us/2025/09/08/n...

Did my colleagues and I design the internship program we wish we had access to when we were humanities graduate students? Absolutely. The best part of my job is making the path easier for everyone

Roosevelt Institute Graduate Humanities Internship The Roosevelt Institute is pleased to announce the first annual Roosevelt Institute Graduate Humanities Internship. This paid, remote, two-semester internship offers current graduate students in the h...

Are you currently in a humanities graduate degree program, or know someone who is? Are you/they interested in learning about public policy as a post-grad career path? Then check out the new internship program Roosevelt is launching!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

They’re just in DC to do something about all the crime

Celebrate Today but Fight Tomorrow: Social Security’s Anniversary Is a Call to Action This should be a moment of celebration. But instead, on Social Security’s 90th anniversary, I find myself sounding an alarm. The program my grandfather signed into law on this day in 1935 is under att...

On the 90th anniversary of Social Security, FDR's grandson and former associate commissioner for retirement Jim Roosevelt writes about the legacy of the program and the attacks it faces today www.firesidestacks.com/p/social-sec...

So much is terrible in the world and in DC specifically but I managed to get my "emails that need follow up" list down to just 17 so I am clinging to that today

1993 clinton deficit reduction bill. 2.1% increase in resources for the bottom 20%. -7.2% for the top 1%. -2.3% for the top 20%. nearly no change for middle 60%. goated.

big beautiful bill. not so beautiful in reality, tho. bottom 20% worse off. not huge change for people up to 6th decile. still 1.5% or under though all the way through the 9th decile. it's really on the top 10% who are the winners.

on the left, clinton's 1993 deficit reduction bill. goated, peak performance. absolutely enormous tax increases on the rich while helping the poor

on the right, trump's "big beautiful bill." terrible, poor get poorer while rich get richer, significantly worsens fiscal outlook. garbage-tier bill

Roosevelt Events

TODAY! Come join me as I talk to two much smarter people, @lipstickecon.bsky.social and @rebouche.bsky.social, about how Dobbs has reshaped our economy and democracy! Abortion is so much more than healthcare--it's a key market where power is negotiated. Register here: events.zoom.us/ev/AqLMLGhcv...

@rooseveltinstitute.org has produced a lot of great work on childcare recently including from @ehaspel.bsky.social and @kedseconomist.com. And there is more to come. We also have a a webinar on care this afternoon moderated by @jessicacalarco.com !! Don't forget to sign up.

AI and Government Workers: Use Cases in Public Administration - Roosevelt Institute In a new analysis Samantha Shorey explores how AI tools in state and local government can burden public workers and undermine service quality—posing risks to equity, efficiency, and job stability.

New Roosevelt report out today! How AI is changing the jobs of the govt employees Americans interact with most: the folks who process your marriage license, unemployment insurance, driving tests. Upshot: new tech is just transferring more work onto citizens rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

AI and Government Workers: Use Cases in Public Administration - Roosevelt Institute In a new analysis Samantha Shorey explores how AI tools in state and local government can burden public workers and undermine service quality—posing risks to equity, efficiency, and job stability.

New Roosevelt report out today! How AI is changing the jobs of the govt employees Americans interact with most: the folks who process your marriage license, unemployment insurance, driving tests. Upshot: new tech is just transferring more work onto citizens rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

thanks Lenore :(

The RIFs at State hit my family on Friday and I'm still mad about it. I grew up as a State Dept brat, watching both of my parents serve their country and the world through their work. I'm so proud of all they accomplished, and furious that one of them had their career totally obliterated by idiots

I hope you read the book, as it addresses exactly these points. The authors want to push for our country to support women and families. And they address the claim that more humans=bad for the planet and I think provide a really compelling counter argument.

Issue 5: Supply-Side Climate Inflation → Adaptive Inflation Targeting (Policy Proposal) This month, we deviate from our academic reading list to discuss a policy paper that proposes a new monetary policy tool to address persistent climate-driven inflation—adaptive inflation targeting. Th...

I've been enjoying Fed Lit, our newish project. The team takes academic articles or policy papers focused on climate and breakdown the findings for an audience mostly interested in monetary/macro policy. There's very few digests like this out there! fedlit.substack.com/p/issue-5-su...

Image shows the cover of a new book, “after the spike: population, progress, and the case for people” by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso

So excited to see this book in the world! Folks on the left are shocked when I say this changed my mind about global depopulation—it’s a problem and we can’t let the right monopolize the solutions with creepy white nationalism. Fewer people will not solve any of our climate+social problems!

After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People Population, Progress, and the Case for People

Pre-order the book now, it comes out officially next week! bookshop.org/p/books/afte...

Back of the After the Spike book

Don’t just listen to me: even Peter Singer says this book challenged and changed his thinking on the importance of population. We have to make parenting easier and more equitable to sustain any of the progress we’ve made

Image shows the cover of a new book, “after the spike: population, progress, and the case for people” by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso

So excited to see this book in the world! Folks on the left are shocked when I say this changed my mind about global depopulation—it’s a problem and we can’t let the right monopolize the solutions with creepy white nationalism. Fewer people will not solve any of our climate+social problems!

It's been several years but my memory of Michelle Tusan's work is that she builds in her family's personal history to her academic study of the Ottoman Empire and refugees/forced migration, perhaps/especially in Smyrna's Ashes

It's childcare summer at Roosevelt! We'll be featuring a number of fresh ideas for how to rethink childcare policy to better meet family's needs, all of them different. First up is the great @kedseconomist.com with a proposal that wraps together summer and after-school care!

Opinion | Anthropic C.E.O.: Don’t Let A.I. Companies off the Hook

Kudos to Anthropic CEO for admitting unregulated technology is bad for consumers - and potentially a threat.

He notes profit imperatives may well "change corporate incentives to provide [any] level of transparency" and why government regulation is needed

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...

Research Associate - Roosevelt Institute Reporting to the Managing Director, Think Tank, the Research Associate, Think Tank supports the research and writing of both long- and short-term think tank research products. Working across research ...

I'm hiring! Entry-level researcher, great for those who love diving into economics data sets, reading across policy areas, and supporting the work of senior scholars. App deadline is June 13, salary range is $64,922 to $73,036, hybrid NYC or DC offices.
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Quote that reads: Medical debt is not inevitable. Rather, it is the product of decades of dysfunctional health-care policy, a market-oriented insurance system, and a patchwork of safety net programs with notable gaps.

📄 NEW: ~20M Americans have "significant" medical debt. This isn’t inevitable, it’s the result of policy choices.

A decade of gaps in Medicaid & market failures have crushed mobility for millions.

@socio-steve.bsky.social explores actions that can address it: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

To Build the Care Infrastructure We Need, Tax Credits Won’t Cut It As we near the end of April, two things are happening: First, the IRS is processing the millions of tax returns Americans filed in 2025, and doling out credits and deductions that in many cases will s...

This year Roosevelt has 5 fellows focused on care and the economy working across think tank (a true bright spot in a tough year!). We'll be interviewing each of them on Fireside Stacks in the coming months. First up, today is @indivar.bsky.social.

www.firesidestacks.com/p/to-build-t...

Roosevelt brought together 20+ authors (incl. Sen Murphy, AFL-CIO's Liz Shuler, Mariana Mazzucato, Cecilia Munoz, Ned Resnikoff, Arnab Datta...) to answer the question: what should progressive policy priorities look like in the coming months and years? (mini 🧵)

Text: “As progressives take on the urgent task of building resilient democratic institutions that will help secure shared prosperity, we would do well to learn from the efforts of these past reformers—who paired their critique of judicial power with efforts to construct alternative pathways to popular change. They understood that the federal judiciary’s unusually central role in American politics results not only from features of its own design, but also from the countermajoritarian design of our other institutions. We should continue to pursue, as they did, institutional changes that will strengthen the integrity of our legal system. But especially today, we must emphasize: Any vision of “court reform” that is limited to “reforming courts” will not meet this moment.”

I really love this @rooseveltinstitute.org piece by @bhighsmith.bsky.social—check it out!

rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/court-r...

AI to UBI!!!!

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It's such a good essay!