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...

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

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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'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...

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!

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 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!

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...

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. rooseveltinstitute.org/careers/rese...

📄 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...

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 🧵)

I really love this @rooseveltinstitute.org piece by @bhighsmith.bsky.social—check it out! rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/court-r...

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 🧵)

Proud and a little intimidated to have an essay in this collection sit alongside offerings from so many important thinkers. Here's mine: rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/how-to-...

The chaos of the last 100 days is a policy choice. We could be making other choices. @rooseveltinstitute.org worked with a lot of brilliant people to present some alternatives. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

The only good use of the thread function

Very excited to learn that @pkrugman.bsky.social has joined @rooseveltinstitute.org e.org as a senior fellow! Welcome, sir! rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/doing-g...

I’ve wanted to talk to Caitlin for years about what it was like to put together a crucial brief to the Supreme Court, only for Justice Roberts explicitly ignore it. So happy to have our conversation recorded here — she has so much to teach us about economics, abortion, and being an informed citizen

I love this @grouchybagels.bsky.social interview with @caitlinmyers.bsky.social. if you think a lot about reproductive rights, quality data, or educating critically engaged citizens this one is for you. www.firesidestacks.com/p/abortion-a...

If you're curious about how the economists' amicus brief in Dobbs came to be.... Thanks to @grouchybagels.bsky.social @rooseveltinstitute.org for a great interview! www.firesidestacks.com/p/abortion-a...

Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one

Inflation metrics meet video games, my job and my hobbies colliding, I have never clicked a link faster

Join me this Wednesday 1pm ET for our virtual book club! Mike's book is a super interesting look at what democracy really requires, and how financial institutions can be turned on their head to strengthen the system. I learned so much reading it! rooseveltinstitute.org/event/roosev...

Join me this Wednesday 1pm ET for our virtual book club! Mike's book is a super interesting look at what democracy really requires, and how financial institutions can be turned on their head to strengthen the system. I learned so much reading it! rooseveltinstitute.org/event/roosev...

Happy Opening Day, fellow baseball fans! Delighted to share my latest in @rooseveltinstitute.org Fireside Stacks, where I explore the exciting possibility of municipally owned professional sports franchises and imagine a world where Oakland itself owned the A’s. substack.com/@dntn/note/p...

I dont care much for knee-jerk, intra-left fights; I love productive debate. It's been fun the past few weeks watching different folks at Roosevelt think *with* Abundance ideas--where they overlap and where they approach with different lenses. A 🧵of a few things we've published recently:

“American Revolution end date” is too real

Just released a new @rooseveltinstitute.org brief examining shelter inflation as an integral part of the post-pandemic inflation, its connection to the housing crisis, and why monetary policy alone isn't the answer. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

I appreciated the opportunity to contribute to the @rooseveltforward.org Substack to introduce the subject of my forthcoming book on the ways that health insurance coverage denials deepen administrative burden and destabilize patients' health & economic lives. www.firesidestacks.com/p/the-full-c...

I don’t blame the individual novelists here - publishers quite often push titles and covers on authors - but there is something unsettling about the fact that, collected together, these covers make Auschwitz sound like a hipster neighbourhood with cool coffee shops and a Waitrose

Very excited for this book and for exciting things to come with @itsafronomics.bsky.social and @rooseveltinstitute.org 😉

I have identified an AI use case: a program that can assess my to-do list and autoreply when someone emails me with a new request "Based on urgency, your request is now the *57th* item on Hannah's to-do list. Thank you for your patience!"

See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

Central bankers can’t afford to ignore climate risk. #FedLit 🌍 is a new monthly newsletter from @karlsson-kris.bsky.social & Sarah Bloom Raskin on all things climate & central banking. Subscribe now ahead of the first issue! fedlit.substack.com

So much is bad in the world right now but I'm so excited that Osita Nwanevu, Ned Resnikoff, Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana, Miranda Yaver, Jessica Calarco, and so many other smart brilliant people are joining our fellowship this year to help us figure out how to rebuild something new from this horror show

Yesterday was my first evening preparing taxes for this season, after I passed my re-qualifying IRS exam last week. I loved it as usual 🥲 Elon will have to pry VITA from my cold dead hands

Check out our new 📊 State of Working America Data Library! 📊 It provides easily accessible, up-to-date, and comprehensive historical data on the US economy 🧵 All the data, none of the confusion💡 data.epi.org?utm_source=b...

One thing that the Dems should be doing rhetorically is to leverage the moment where eyes are on institutions to articulate a vision of American government as a force for good that stands in contrast to Musk and Trump’s insistence that all government spending is wasteful

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive. Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

I gotta stop responding to "how are you holding up?" with "well, both of my parents work for the federal government-" People look at me like I just said they're dying