This is what an economy set up for extraction rather than for people looks like. What are the places and spaces that make for a #GoodLife? And how do we write rules that incentivize markets to create them, rather than extract from all of us? That's the work.

MIT found that 95% of AI pilots fail. Deployment with no plan - and no consultation with the workers who know the jobs - isn't good for anyone. Here's a feel good story about how unions can stand up for worker voice, and ultimately, for a better product and greater productivity for everyone.

Yup. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

Even @washingtonpost.com says so: "In an era defined by major political divisions and massive wealth accumulation for the richest Americans, billionaires are spending unprecedented amounts on U.S. politics. . . . wealth is now more concentrated at the very top than at any time since the Gilded Age."

Larry Summers’s time came and went a long time ago. Just like we need new ideas, we also need new thought leaders who put people, their pain and their wants and needs, at the center of their policy. Forward not backward. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

This story is honestly insane. Faraway investors buying up Detroit homes and turning them into crypto tokens; letting housing fall into disrepair, and evicting residents. This is what happens in an extraction economy.

Must read: how a PE corporate landlord’s business model is to raise the rent to the optimal profit price and aggressively evicting people: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

This is what true public service looks like: Fighting like hell with every tool in the toolbox to return money but also power and dignity to people, and to hold a abusers to account. Bravo.

This year’s data on first time homebuyers is only worse. No wonder the student I talked to didn’t have any hope of owning a home. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/r...

I love public radio, I love Michigan, and I love the possibilities for government to play a transformative role in people's lives. But we have a lot of work to do to get it there. Check out my recent interview on this. 1/2

“There’s all sorts of terrible, dystopian scenarios you can imagine with crypto in real estate” For Detroiters who just want a livable home, that dystopia of evictions and faceless, unaccountable landlords is already here. 1/ outliermedia.org/crypto-real-...

The cost of living crisis is hitting families at every turn—pricing people out of even our most beloved social and cultural activities. Our president and CEO’s take on the impact, both social and economic, of skyrocketing costs of tickets for sporting events👇

Spent yesterday at UMich talking to law students and undergrads about what the economy looks like to them, what kind of lives they want to lead, and what barriers they see to creating that life. What I heard was both heartbreaking and hopeful. 1/

I'm not a sports fan. But this is outrageous. Ticket prices are going up according to three rules of sports econ. 1: Sell fewer tickets for more, don't care if your seats are empty. 2: Use data to charge each fan exactly what they're willing to pay. 3: More uber premium seats. 1/

Lunch today with policymakers from across Michigan made it clear to me that we need different kinds of leader in this moment: Ones who listen deeply, act boldly and creatively, aren’t afraid to talk across difference and make mistakes in order to be of service.

Michigan is a bellwether for public policy. The Trump administration’s robinhood-in-reverse tax policy isn’t landing. What Michiganders want: to tax the rich and invest in the public good. New @freep op-ed from me and @bilalb.bsky.social: www.freep.com/story/opinio...

I’m a DC native so I think my city sometimes gets a bad rap. That said, sometimes we gotta get out of here. We’ve got leaders everywhere who listen to their neighbors—their problems, their dreams—and deliver bold results, and Washington needs to take their cue. SO…

“For-profit media conglomerates are accountable first and foremost to their shareholders, not to the tradition of free speech that is the lifeblood of their industry and American democracy.” And when those shareholders find it in their interest to deal with a strongman, we are the ones who lose.

The crypto lobby is pushing bills that most of us don’t even understand, but that would rip a hole in our financial regulatory system. Check out our explainers. Get educated because these markets should work for us, not for them.

Talking about the kind of policy and governance that can truly deliver for people and restore faith in our political system with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social - a real pleasure.

👇🏾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.

For decades, an elite few have amassed wealth & power taking away resources & influence from the working class majority. @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social writes about how the disconnect between policy & lived experience has created a populist moment—& emphasizes the direction we take now is critical.

To make sure AI serves workers we need bold action: corporate regulation, worker voice + sectoral bargaining. More on AI and power from the @rooseveltinstitute.org @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social in this post for the @eop.aspeninstitute.org: www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/w... #FutureOfWork

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I mean, they’re asking for more public comment. But we already heard from 26,000 people. How can we not agree that workers — all workers, everywhere, without waiting for a lawsuit that’s likely never to happen — should be free?

Great insights in this piece and a solid plan for rebuilding an economy that works for people. Thanks for citing Equitable Growth's research, @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social!

"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/...

Moments of crisis are also moments of opportunity. If we want to beat authoritarianism and usher in a new political order of shared power and prosperity, we need our policy prescriptions to be rooted in people’s lives experiences and we need to develop those solutions together. Take a read.

"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-...

When corporations use noncompetes, workers lose choices, wages, & freedom. Noncompete clauses affect ~30M workers. Our CEO @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social on the importance of defending the FTC's noncompete ban, which has broad worker support ⤵️ otherwords.org/about/

@pkrugman.bsky.social was right, even before the president’s latest move to fire Lisa Cook. The attempt to fire her tonight is pure intimidation politics. And in this case, intimidation will literally cost us as financial markets price in a cowed central bank.

It's been heartbreaking to be a native Washingtonian this week.

I have spent most of my life making government work for people. But the institutions I love have been losing faith with the public for a long time. If we love government, then when we rebuild it we’ll have to be willing to break some glass to make it deliver like FDR did.

Our families, our children, our childcare providers all need a better solution than the “system” we have now. We’re talking about the investment needed to truly enable the family life, the child rearing and the work that everyone deserves.

Just heard @pewilliams.bsky.social explaining that the grassroots YIMBY movement knows unleashing supply requires major zoning reform and cutting red tape, and also ensuring private actors act for public good. Nuance doesn’t get clicks but it does get stuff right. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

We cannot build shared prosperity while millions of workers are trapped by exploitative contracts. CEO @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social said it best: "A clear and simple ban on noncompetes is, to my mind, the only way to truly protect workers." www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...

This bill isn’t just an economic travesty, it’s a moral one. Forget trickle down economics; we’re now in a greed-first economy, one that will take great moral courage to overturn.

B/c child care has long been more expensive than a mortgage payment … many women feel that their choices are constrained. They’re not always working because they want to, or staying home because they want to — they’re trying to complete a financial puzzle that has several pieces missing.

Look, the last thing I thought I'd be doing this Juneteenth is telling you to read Roland Fryer's oped in the @wsj.com about how to reflect on slavery. But you should - hear me out. A 🧵 www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

⁦‪Todd Tucker on the 'golden share' agreement in the U.S. Steel-Nippon Steel partnership - these are important tools we can use to drive pro social market outcomes, if we use them right. www.npr.org/2025/06/18/n...

Calling a bill explicitly allowing for 4-year noncompete clauses in employment contracts the “Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality, and Economic Growth (Choice) Act” puts the moron in oxymoronic. Way to go Florida. www.ft.com/content/0c9e...

Imagine if we valued teachers even a little like we value stock pickers… www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

President & CEO @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social joined Tavis Smiley to unpack how economic shocks affect Black Americans—and what real structural change would look like. She explores the legacy of FDR & Eleanor and how policy can prioritize Black communities: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Americans are losing faith in democracy because our economy has concentrated power at the top, leaving the rest behind. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social, @ositanwanevu.com, and @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social discuss how bold policy can restore economic democracy: rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/b...

Traditional economics wouldn’t predict how companies are reacting to tariffs - broadcasting their price hikes. We need to interrogate how much pricing power companies have and whether they’re using tariffs as a cover to gauge consumers.

When people lose power in the economy, they lose faith in democracy. As @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social explains: FDR showed it doesn’t have to be that way. Our discussion on our new essay collection explored how bold ideas can put people back at the center. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/buildin...

We need a call-and-response relationship with our governing institutions. We need to hear the deep yearnings, desires and frustrations of our people, and we need some urgency and some fight in us to fix their problems. I talked about this on the Realignment. Take a listen. 1/2

Deregulation allows companies to rig the economy unchecked. Deregulation for friends allows a level of crony capitalism and kleptocracy that deeply threatens our democracy. This is why market regulators must be able to enforce the law without fear or favor. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...