Today, New Mexico launched its universal childcare initiative. Last month I wrote about it for Roosevelt Institute -- historic state endeavors like this should show lawmakers at all levels of government that Americans are sick and tired of waiting for bold action on childcare. shorturl.at/Sm2tZ

Excited that my new book review came out at the same time as Corrine Low's essay on what the medical professions can teach us about how to organize jobs to be family friendly. There's a lot to be learned by looking at how women organize work when they have numbers. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...

a sharp @suzmkahn.bsky.social review in @washingtonmonthly.com on After the Spike. Parenting will always have something of an "opportunity cost" but that doesn't mean there's not a lot policy can do to make it a better option washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/a...

NEW 📰: Building a more effective government that moves beyond the status quo requires honest reflection. Drawing on interviews with more than 45 former senior Biden officials, our latest report offers 161 practical recommendations for better governance. https://bit.ly/4312Zid

No jobs data. No inflation report. No roadmap. This isn’t a technical glitch, it’s a threat to democratic governance. In #FiresideStacks🔥, @mikemadowitz.bsky.social warns how the shutdown has silenced the federal stats that keep our economy functioning. bit.ly/4726aag

Americans' trust in media hit an all-time low this week. But the trust numbers for public media look totally different. The public is wary of how commercial pressures impact news fairness and accuracy — and for good reason. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/trust-i...

Even before the admin went after higher ed, public colleges faced 50 years of decline—hollowed out by privatization, financialization, and disinvestment. @lookheron.bsky.social’s new report traces that history & shows how we can build a more equitable education system today: https://bit.ly/3WlV9vv

New Mexico is making history: the first state to guarantee no-cost universal childcare. 💡 A bold step toward affordability that shows what’s possible when leaders prioritize families. @lbilik.bsky.social on why federal lawmakers should take note. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/new-mex...

You are going to hear a lot over the next few years about how SS is doomed and we need to privatize it or whatever. But it is not doomed. We have already figured out several possible ways to right to the ship. And we could have done so at any time in the last 2 decades. We knew this was coming...

👇🏾right here. We need to understand the machine behind the machine - corporate consolidation means fewer heads to knock together when out of control state power comes knocking. It means a small group of wealthy individuals doing deals with a corrupt set of leaders. Consolidation is bad for democracy.

Truly wild stuff going on tonight in DC White House pushing congress to get an unprecedented Fed Nominee confirmed late tonight (around 8PM per @vtg2.bsky.social / @politico.com ) 1/

Exciting news from New Mexico, proving that states continue to innovate in the face of the federal government's decades of inaction on childcare. Don't let anyone tell you there isn't nationwide demand for childcare as a public good. shorturl.at/tTENi

"People are experts on what’s not working in their lives. And when so many say they don’t have the time to both care for their loved ones and make a living, policymakers need to take that cue." - @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social is essential reading. democracyjournal.org/magazine/78/...

"Childcare undergirds everything we care about as Americans." - Great conversation between @lbilik.bsky.social and @ehaspel.bsky.social in today's Fireside Stacks. www.firesidestacks.com/p/raising-a-...

"The program my grandfather signed into law on this day in 1935 is under attack—not just in rhetoric, but through deliberate acts of administrative sabotage." Today on Fireside Stacks, a warning and a call to action. www.firesidestacks.com/p/social-sec...

Trump’s second term is about consolidating power through sabotage and deregulation. The latest #FiresideStacks 🔥 offers a path for how we can challenge and move beyond the myths that have made the Right's harmful vision a reality. www.firesidestacks.com/p/reclaiming...

Widening inequality, broken systems, and rising discontent aren’t isolated issues. Americans are navigating economic precarity, failing institutions, and fractured communities. When institutions fail to deliver, people seek alternatives. Roosevelt Fellow Daniel HoSang with a sobering op-ed.

After a long break, @ericarstern.bsky.social and I are back with some very personal book recommendations. books4endofworld.substack.com/p/birth-trau...

Parents and providers know what they need in a childcare system: something simple & safe where all kids have a high quality spot. We worked with Community Change on a new paper w/ research rooted in conversations with stakeholders about these simple demands.

New in @msnbc.com from me & @suzmkahn.bsky.social: Don't let the messaging fool you: a few tax credits (that don't even reach the poorest families) will never solve the childcare crisis. Americans need and deserve historic investment in public universal childcare, and we should demand nothing less.

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...

I loved talking to @jessicacalarco.com for this weeks Fireside Stacks. Read to the end for her fascinating take on Christian mom's groups as models for succesful organizing. www.firesidestacks.com/p/other-coun...

Private equity is moving into childcare; private chains help small providers sell when they are ready to retire -- that's no small thing. That's why @ehaspel.bsky.social new brief on how the public sector can support childcare ownership transitions to better serve providers and kids is so critical.

New piece from @lbilik.bsky.social previews what we've been working on together. People love Head Start. When we asked folks about a public option for childcare they were skeptical, then they told us how much they loved Head Start. We should build on it! www.firesidestacks.com/p/the-right-...

Schools out for the summer as of yesterday, so we started this morning with a kid on the floor shouting "but i'll be bored!" as she realized that grown-ups don't have summer vacation. If you too are spending June remembering that summer is a nightmare, we have got the policy paper for you!

"Just to sum up, Trump accounts are not baby bonuses and they are not baby bonds. They are a way for households to invest their own money tax free and are of almost no use to working-class households that don’t have spare money to invest" - @socio-steve.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/roos...

"We are seeing an age of wealth so concentrated that it threatens to eclipse every form of democratic input—thanks to a system that not only allows wealth to be exercised as political power, but enables such staggering levels of wealth accumulation in the first place."

"Flint should have been a warning to the country that “efficiency” without regard for public welfare is a dangerous proposition. Yet DOGE was a far more extreme expression of this logic." Read @bilalb.bsky.social on DOGE www.freep.com/story/opinio...

New paper on one of my favorite topics from Kitty Richards and Noa Rosinplotz. It's time for our tax code to stop rewarding sole-breadwinner households and punishing more egalitarian marriages. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

My dear friend, occasional substack co-conspirator, and fellow obsessive interlocutor of how society handles parenthood, Erica Stern's book is out today. Congratulations @ericarstern.bsky.social! And everyone order it! www.amazon.com/Frontier-Mem...

I love this piece from @rachelmcohen.bsky.social. I have long wanted to research what we can learn from the structure of career paths in traditionally female dominated professions (teaching, nursing, etc.) to inform how to restructure careers more generally. www.vox.com/policy/41509...

I was thrilled to talk to @marketplace.org about my favorite topic: The structural issues that make it so hard to parent in this country. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

1/ Want to help US workers? Enforce labor law, not deportation orders. Undocumented immigrants are not the problem. The problem is the govt’s inadequate response to structural shifts in the economy that undermine worker power. NEW REPORT: smlr.rutgers.edu/sites/defaul...

"Who ultimately benefited from Musk’s relentless cutting?" @bilalb.bsky.social asks the important question about DOGE in today's Fireside Stacks. Spoiler alert: It wasn't the American people. www.firesidestacks.com/p/what-musks...

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Given where we are politically, is "despite" the right word?

The GOP’s reconciliation bill plans to offset tax cuts for the wealthy with massive cuts to health-care programs that could result in 13M more uninsured individuals. For #FiresideStacks🔥, @socio-steve.bsky.social lays out why it's another poor policy decision. www.firesidestacks.com/p/the-...

Important new piece from @mikemadowitz.bsky.social on all the broken eggs going into dangerously chaotic economy www.barrons.com/articles/sof...

"returning to the status quo is neither prudent nor possible." www.democracycollaborative.org/blogs/democr...

You're going to hear a lot about medicaid cuts this week You should! @socio-steve.bsky.social on the downstream medical debt ballon that's coming for way more families & communities than advertised Or, we could just not let the leopards eat our faces

“It’s pennies when you need dollars” is one good summary of GOP care plans. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

A successful industrial policy is clear and consistent. @toddntucker.com on @majorityreport.bsky.social underscores how unpredictable tariffs impede the goal of rebuilding manufacturing by making long-term investments riskier.

We can build a childcare system that supports working families, pays providers fairly, and powers our economy. But that starts with challenging the myth that markets alone can meet our care needs. #DayWithoutChildCare rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

ER in FiresideStacks very on point this week: "I carry a social security card just as does my secretary and my cook. We all join with the government and whoever employs us to put in our share toward whatever type of social service all of us are receiving.” www.firesidestacks.com/p/doge-wants...

just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful

FDR used his first 100 days to build stability. Trump is using his to break it. In #FiresideStacks 🔥, @grouchybagels.bsky.social & @suzmkahn.bsky.social share why we asked 23 policy experts to imagine a future rooted in economic democracy—& how to get there. www.firesidestacks.com/p/after-100-...

This is fascinating: With a 25% reduction in public support for research and development "U.S. GDP, adjusted for inflation, would be 3.8 percent smaller in the long term — a decline similar in magnitude to that in the Great Recession." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

Another great read from @karlsson-kris.bsky.social and Sarah Bloom Raskin!

A murderer's row of progressive thinkers in this new collection from @rooseveltinstitute.org, including @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @mazzucatom.bsky.social @alexsjacquez.bsky.social @arnabdatta.bsky.social @resnikoff.bsky.social @bhighsmith.bsky.social @ositanwanevu.com @costasamaras.com.