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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · Feb 20
👀 The latest with an eye toward the long game.

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When families can’t afford care but billionaires grow richer, the system isn’t working.

In #FiresideStacks🔥, @lbilik.bsky.social highlights how voters nationwide are pushing for a different path—one rooted in collective care.

https://www.firesidestacks.com/p/care-over-concentrated-wealth
Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "Americans know that it’s not that we lack the resources to deliver economic security. It’s that lawmakers appear to lack the will to collect those resources."
November 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social
Yup.

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November 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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People want a government that helps everyone build a stable life.

This week, @lbilik.bsky.social discusses the nationwide momentum behind taxing concentrated wealth to fund care—the new mainstream for progressive policy. #FiresideStacks🔥

https://bit.ly/4i7SgIU
Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "Time and again, the American people have told almost anyone who will listen that they are deeply concerned about the fact that households in the top 10 percent hold over two-thirds of the country’s wealth, while many families can’t afford childcare or eldercare, children go hungry, and so many live in tenuous precarity because we lack a true social safety net."
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Americans are sick of being told “we can’t afford" policies that we need, like public childcare or school lunch programs. They know the truth: we CAN afford it. It's just that for decades, lawmakers have failed to redistribute resources to do so. My latest @rooseveltforward.org:
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November 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Claiming “things are affordable” doesn’t resonate when grocery, health care, and housing bills keep rising. And tariffs, ACA subsidy cuts, and now 50-year mortgages don’t point to lower costs. “Vibecessions” happen when policy helps corporations, not workers. @pkrugman.bsky.social bit.ly/3XDt2sm
The Vibecession Deepens
And even I am somewhat surprised
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November 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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NY hopes to invest in childcare as an economic engine, while CO proves people will raise taxes to feed kids.

In #FiresideStacks🔥, @lbilik.bsky.social explores the momentum behind taxing concentrated wealth to fund economic stability for all.

www.firesidestacks.com/p/care-over-...
Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "People have made clear that they don’t want to live in a country where children go to bed hungry or parents can’t make ends meet because they lack childcare, while the richest among us keep getting richer."
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Trump’s “solution” to the housing crisis: 50-year mortgages.

It won’t make homes cheaper, just load people with more debt. All while tariffs, labor crackdowns, and anti-zoning policies keep housing scarce and expensive.

New from @resnikoff.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/48jtjqx
Trump's 50-year-mortgage proposal is just the start of his housing problems
Letting homebuyers opt for a longer mortgage won’t make any homes cheaper.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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“The myth of millionaire mobility has done its job: it’s made policymakers nervous and kept billionaires comfortable.”

In #FiresideStacks🔥 , Jacob Spitz shows how the fear of tax flight is hindering progress on the reforms we need.

https://www.firesidestacks.com/p/the-rich-dont-flee-they-bluff
The Rich Don’t Flee, They Bluff
Across the US, UK, and France, governments are revisiting how to tax extreme wealth, ranging from property to unrealized gains to corporations. The motives differ—some seek fairness, others fiscal sur...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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victorpickard.bsky.social
Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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socio-steve.bsky.social
which is also backed by data: We are all better off when our neighbors are healthy, housed, and fed—every hole in the social safety net makes it weaker for everyone else.

Hope you enjoy this "meta" piece. 2/2

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November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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New from Noa Rosinplotz and me in NPQ. Republicans use stories about the undeserving to divide Americans and fracture coalitions. Defending beneficiary "deservingness" with data is trap too many of us fall into. We need instead offer a counternarrative...1/2

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How to Oppose Divisive Narratives and Preserve Social Benefits for All | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
This past July, the Trump administration used divide-and-conquer tactics to push through major cuts to social benefits. Fortunately, there are effective ways to fight back.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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New in @npquarterly.bsky.social: Roosevelt's @socio-steve.bsky.social and Noa Rosinplotz break down how narratives about who “deserves” help shape recent debates on Medicaid and SNAP—and how advocates can refocus the conversation on the real people who rely on these programs.
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How to Oppose Divisive Narratives and Preserve Social Benefits for All | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
This past July, the Trump administration used divide-and-conquer tactics to push through major cuts to social benefits. Fortunately, there are effective ways to fight back.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Across the US, UK, and France, govt’s are revisiting how to tax extreme wealth, ranging from property to unrealized gains to corp’s.. The motives differ—some seek fairness, others fiscal survival—but the anxiety is the same: If we tax the rich, will they leave?
www.firesidestacks.com/p/the-rich-d...
The Rich Don’t Flee, They Bluff
Across the US, UK, and France, governments are revisiting how to tax extreme wealth, ranging from property to unrealized gains to corporations. The motives differ—some seek fairness, others fiscal sur...
www.firesidestacks.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Tax the rich. That is all.

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The Rich Don’t Flee, They Bluff
Across the US, UK, and France, governments are revisiting how to tax extreme wealth, ranging from property to unrealized gains to corporations. The motives differ—some seek fairness, others fiscal sur...
www.firesidestacks.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Wealth inequality continues to widen while the tax code favors the top 0.1%.

In this week’s #FiresideStacks🔥, Jacob Spitz discusses why it’s time to stop letting billionaire threats shape public policy.

https://bit.ly/4hZo2YE
Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "The myth of millionaire mobility has done its job: It’s made policymakers nervous and kept billionaires comfortable. The evidence tells a simpler story—most of them stay put."
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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When the government can’t act decisively, democracy is at risk.

In #FiresideStacks🔥, Hannah Garden-Monheit shares insights from former Biden-Harris senior officials on how we can build a more responsive government that works for everyone.

https://bit.ly/3Xh9biB
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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“If the government can’t deliver quickly and visibly for ordinary people, its legitimacy erodes.”

In our inaugural #FiresideStacks🔥 video interview, Hannah Garden-Monheit offers a clear-eyed blueprint for rebuilding public capacity.

https://bit.ly/3Xh9biB
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Did you know that Oxfam research found that the richest 10 Americans made over $698 billion dollars this past year? This extreme concentration of wealth alongside the hardship of many is no accident. This is what oligarchy looks like. @rebeccariddell.bsky.social 

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November 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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"The data confirms what people across our nation already know instinctively: the new American oligarchy is here." -
@abbymaxman.bsky.social speaks about our newest report on the drastic growth of inequality in the U.S: www.forbes.com/sites/josiec...
Income Inequality Is Surging In The U.S., New Oxfam Report Shows
The richest 1% of households have accumulated almost 1,000 times more wealth than the poorest 20% over the last three and a half decades.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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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...
November 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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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

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Running Out of People
In After the Spike, two economists make a provocative case that population decline could stall innovation and human progress.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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#ICYMI:

✅ Biden alums reflect on what was already broken before they took office
✅ What expiring health insurance tax credits mean for you
✅ Latest explainer on the SCOTUS tariff cases

More in the #RooseveltRundown ⬇️
https://bit.ly/3LhvPow
161 Ways to Make Government More Effective - Roosevelt Institute
Roosevelt Rundown: “I Don't Want to Go Back to a Government I Entered in 2020–21”, Why Everyone's Premiums Are Going Up This Open Enrollment Season, What We're Talking About, and What We're Reading
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November 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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When students speak, history tells us to listen. They often hold the line on justice while institutions maintain the status quo.

In #FiresideStacks🔥, @katie-kirchner.bsky.social argues that their activism should be the standard.

www.firesidestacks.com/p/we-c...
Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "As in generations past, the student left remains “the most reliably correct constituency in America.” Over and over—often at great personal sacrifice—they’ve held the line on what is moral, only to see institutions and leaders catch up. Columbia University is one example: It once worked to crush its 1968 student uprising, and now it markets that same protest as a symbol of its “activist Ivy” legacy."
October 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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"Isn’t empathy for that pain, and honesty about its scale, the bare minimum we should expect from our leaders? That’s the spirit that should guide how progressive institutions and leaders approach policy: starting from what is necessary, not what polls as popular."
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Young progressives aren’t “the future”—they’re the moral compass of the present.

Ignoring them isn’t just shortsighted. It’s a threat to progress.

This week’s #FiresideStacks🔥 is a wake-up call from @katie-kirchner.bsky.social.

www.firesidestacks.com/p/we-c...
Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "This time, instead of treating students’ moral conviction as a challenge to pragmatic politics, what if we saw it as the foundation of any civic movement capable of meeting this moment?"
October 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Young progressives aren’t “the future”—they’re the moral compass of the present.

Ignoring them isn’t just shortsighted. It’s a threat to progress.

This week’s #FiresideStacks🔥 is a wake-up call from @katie-kirchner.bsky.social.

www.firesidestacks.com/p/we-c...
Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "This time, instead of treating students’ moral conviction as a challenge to pragmatic politics, what if we saw it as the foundation of any civic movement capable of meeting this moment?"
October 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM