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161 is a lot of recommendations, so over the next few weeks, we're going to highlight a few!

Tell us which resonates with you and your work? 1/

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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
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The energy transition can be a financial winner.

Training local workers to build clean transportation infrastructure lowers costs, improves health outcomes, and creates family-sustaining jobs—all part of building the #GoodLife from the ground up.

New from @betonyjones.bsky.social: bit.ly/47X63gM
Where Washington Fails, States Must Step Up to Protect Good American Jobs - Roosevelt Institute
When federal inconsistency and political theatrics undermine U.S. clean manufacturing, states can—and must—step up. Betony Jones explores how state policy can stabilize markets, attract investment, an...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Housing + Private Equity = A recipe for profit over people.

As urgency grows around housing and affordability, we peel back the curtain on an issue impacting hundreds of Detroit residents: housing as a digital investment asset.
https://bit.ly/4o1ISIg
November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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This didn’t happen overnight. Citizens United opened the floodgates to unlimited spending, and 15 years later, we’re living with the consequences—more polarization, less accountability, and policymaking tilted towards the ultra-rich.

Reform is still possible: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Citizens United and the Decline of US Democracy: Assessing the Decision’s Impact 15 Years Later - Roosevelt Institute
In a new analysis, Rachel Funk Fordham examines the 15-year legacy of Citizens United, assessing its impact on democracy through new evidence and political science research and offering recommendation...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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When child care is owned by private investors and not local stakeholders, families suffer.

Creator Kimmy the Daycare Diva recently broke down what happens when private equity treats daycares like tradable assets—and how public and co-op models can keep care rooted in the community.

Watch below! 👇
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
In a recession, policymakers should prioritize:

✔️direct, robust stimulus for families
✔️direct and flexible aid for state and local governments
✔️experimentation with economic policy

Zehra Khan on the historical lessons to guide a future recovery: https://bit.ly/3XNuZ5y
How Should Progressives Respond to the Next Recession? - Roosevelt Institute
The next recession should be treated as an opportunity for structural transformation, not merely stabilization. Drawing on historical evidence, Zehra Khan shows that a bold, front-loaded stimulus produces faster and more equitable recoveries than auster...
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November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
What happens when your landlord is private equity? A tale from Detroit:

❌Unfair evictions
❌Unsafe, unheated, and deteriorating homes
❌Your home is a digital cryptocurrency “token” sold to investors worldwide

Housing should not be a speculative investment but a public good.
November 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
#ICYMI: Our top stories of the week

✅ How to respond to the next recession
✅ How crypto and private equity are hurting Detroit renters
✅ A call for progressive young people to join the Network

More in the #RooseveltRundown ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4rcFyfZ
What to Do When the Next Recession Hits - Roosevelt Institute
Roosevelt Rundown: Recessions Require Bold, Immediate Government Action, When Your Landlord Is Private Equity, What We're Talking About, and What We're Reading
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November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The richest 100 Americans gave $1.1B to the 2024 election. For comparison, between 2000 and 2010, they spent an average of $21 million on federal elections.

We don’t have to accept oligarchy as normal. @washingtonpost.com on billionaire money in politics: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
How billionaires took over American politics
The current concentration of wealth is unlike anything in history. So is billionaires’ involvement in politics.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
After much delay, once again it’s jobs day—the first official look at the labor market since the shutdown froze federal data.

Our Principal Economist @mikemadowitz.bsky.social explains why having real numbers again matters—and why any data is better than flying blind:
November 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
When child care is owned by private investors and not local stakeholders, families suffer.

Creator Kimmy the Daycare Diva recently broke down what happens when private equity treats daycares like tradable assets—and how public and co-op models can keep care rooted in the community.

Watch below! 👇
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
We’ve already seen how smart clean-energy rules can spur investment and build out our EV infrastructure to scale.

The admin is reversing progress, but @betonyjones.bsky.social's brief shows how states can pick up the baton.

Good read in @politico.com: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
November 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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NEW: The pandemic response showed that, when the next recession hits, we don’t have to repeat the mistakes of 2009 and 2001.

Zehra Khan urges progressives to treat recessions as opportunities for bold, transformational policymaking.

https://bit.ly/47RhjLN
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“It’s impossible to solve America’s housing crisis without understanding the deep structural perversions in how homebuilding is financed.” - @balancecraft.bsky.social

Housing affordability is an urgent issue, and we must expand our understanding of the crisis and our toolkit of solutions.

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🏠📄NEW: Our latest paper — "Capital Crunch" — is OUT NOW!

The paper details the policy choices that created today’s financialized homebuilding industry, which bends to the will of Wall Street, restricting single-family home supply and raising prices. 👇
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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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.
Housing + Private Equity = A recipe for profit over people.

As urgency grows around housing and affordability, we peel back the curtain on an issue impacting hundreds of Detroit residents: housing as a digital investment asset.
https://bit.ly/4o1ISIg
November 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Housing + Private Equity = A recipe for profit over people.

As urgency grows around housing and affordability, we peel back the curtain on an issue impacting hundreds of Detroit residents: housing as a digital investment asset.
https://bit.ly/4o1ISIg
November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
New in @thehill.com: In many cities, parents are paying more for child care than for rent.

Nationally, caring for an infant and a 4-year-old costs 31.5% more than a two-bedroom apartment.

This is a structural failure in how we think about, fund, and govern care. https://bit.ly/47KGD7i
Some parents paying more for child care than rent: Study
“Spending almost $1,300 a month on child care is a massive burden for parents,” said Lending Tree's Matt Schulz.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
NEW: The pandemic response showed that, when the next recession hits, we don’t have to repeat the mistakes of 2009 and 2001.

Zehra Khan urges progressives to treat recessions as opportunities for bold, transformational policymaking.

https://bit.ly/47RhjLN
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The energy transition can be a financial winner.

Training local workers to build clean transportation infrastructure lowers costs, improves health outcomes, and creates family-sustaining jobs—all part of building the #GoodLife from the ground up.

New from @betonyjones.bsky.social: bit.ly/47X63gM
Where Washington Fails, States Must Step Up to Protect Good American Jobs - Roosevelt Institute
When federal inconsistency and political theatrics undermine U.S. clean manufacturing, states can—and must—step up. Betony Jones explores how state policy can stabilize markets, attract investment, an...
bit.ly
November 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Affordability is becoming more elusive as the prices for many everyday goods continue to rise.

As @mikemadowitz.bsky.social explains in @businessinsider.com, a “low-hire, low-fire” job market isn’t making up for it.

The gap between wages and the cost of living is only growing. bit.ly/3LIpBy2
November 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
#ICYMI: Our top stories of the week

✅ Medical debt is a policy choice
✅ How the tax code is quietly being rewritten
✅ Labor solidarity is essential to restoring democracy

More in the #RooseveltRundown ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4oAk8ry
The Medical Debt Crisis Is a Policy Choice - Roosevelt Institute
Roosevelt Rundown: The Scale of the Problem, and How to Fix It , What We’re Talking About, and What We’re Reading
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November 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
🧵 #ICYMI: Target lowered prices on 3,000 groceries this week.

Consumers are trading down, comparing prices, and looking everywhere for relief from high costs.

Moves like this are a market response to shifting demand and competing announcements. 1/6
www.usatoday.com/story/grocer...
Target reduces prices on 3,000 food items, beverages, essentials. Here's a sampling.
The retailer said it was lowering prices as shoppers try to stretch their budgets.
www.usatoday.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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This a topic I have recently dug into myself so I really appreciated Mara's insights and perspective as someone who has done great work tackling it notably as part of the country’s first publicly funded medical debt cancellation program in Cook County, Il.

rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/fixing-...
How to Start Fixing a Health-Care System That Creates Medical Debt - Roosevelt Institute
In Part 1 of this two-part series, I dug into the medical debt crisis in the United States and the characteristics of the health-care system that creates and sustains that crisis. This installment loo...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Today at @rooseveltinstitute.org we have two new blog posts by @maraheneghan.bsky.social As. Director, Health and Political Economy Project at the New School’s Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy tackling medical debt in the United States....1/2

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What Medical Debt Cancellation Teaches Us About Our Failing Health-Care System - Roosevelt Institute
It is a somber year for health care in America. While we commemorate both the 60th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid and the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), we’re watching health...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Today, the CFPB proposed a rule that rolls back fair lending protections.

@bradlipton.bsky.social, our director of Corporate Power and former CFPB official, spoke with @bloomberglaw.com about how this will make enforcement harder and enable discriminatory lending in mortgages and other markets.
November 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM