Roosevelt Institute

08/22/2026

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🌎 What the Strait of Hormuz crisis can teach us about inflation: Michael Madowitz explains why supply shocks will require more proactive tools not traditionally found in the inflation-fighting toolkit.

🏛️ Why tax reform is also democracy reform: Join Brian Galle, Samarth Gupta, and Nate Kelly for an upcoming conversation, moderated by Suzanne Kahn, on how a fairer tax code can help address the wealth inequality that threatens our democratic institutions.

📈 What Social Security’s future has to do with the economy: Kathryn Anne Edwards explains in USA Today why the program’s future depends on more than demographics, including who is working, how much workers are earning, and how the economy is performing writ large.

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And why tax reform is democracy reform in this week's Roosevelt Rundown.

08/07/2026

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🌎 What will it take to make the next governing window a success on climate policy? Nineteen experts offer 17 ideas for a “Project 2029” to transition more lastingly to a green economy.

🛡️ Social Security's future depends on the health of the broader economy. Looking back at the 1983 reforms, Kathryn Anne Edwards shows why policies to raise wages will do more to protect the program’s solvency than more benefit cuts.

💼 The economy has bought policymakers time. Mike Madowitz explains why they should be using it to prepare for the next downturn before it happens.

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Plus, 17 fresh ideas for the green energy transition in this week's Roosevelt Rundown.

08/06/2026

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✅ Should the public share in the benefits of AI? Proposals for public equity stakes in AI companies could not only help support workers displaced by new technology and address the climate impacts of AI's rapid expansion, but assert democratic influence over the direction our economy takes
✅ One year after the OBBB, where does the clean energy transition stand? In a new blog post, Todd N. Tucker and Roosevelt Fellow Joe Peck find that while the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill didn't do quite as much damage as it could have, its slashing of solar and wind tax credits has pushed previous emissions reduction goals further out of reach.
✅ How can policymakers modernize the safety net for today's economy? Roosevelt's Stephen Nuñez joined the We Can Do Better podcast to discuss how the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Restoration Act could strengthen economic security for 7 million disabled and older Americans.

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How public equity stakes could give Americans more say over AI and Big Tech, plus what the One Big Beautiful Bill means for the clean energy transition.

07/24/2026

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✅Brad Lipton and Toyosi Odusola argue that prediction markets’’ growing entanglement with real-world events is creating incentives for manipulation and breaking down public trust.
✅ Student authors from the Roosevelt Network’s Emerging Fellowship, a research and writing program for undergraduates interested in economics and policy, explore bold, community-centered policy ideas in their 2026 journal.
✅ In TIME magazine, Roosevelt Fellow Anisha Steephen explains how Wall Street financing drives rent increases and why rent regulation should be understood as a form of financial regulation.

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Plus, new research from the Roosevelt Network’s undergraduate fellows in this week's Roosevelt Rundown.

07/17/2026

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✅ Roosevelt’s Lena Bilik speaks with Sarah Kenney, an organizer with the organization Let’s Grow Kids, about how Vermont’s near-universal childcare system was designed, won, and implemented, and what national-level policymakers can learn from Vermont about making public childcare happen.
✅ NYC is banning deceptive subscription practices that trap people into recurring payments. According to analysis from Roosevelt’s Brad Lipton and Noa Rosinplotz, this move will save New Yorkers both time and money—up to $162.5 million and 600,000 hours per year.
✅Roosevelt’s Lena Bilik speaks with Sarah Kenney, an organizer with the organization Let’s Grow Kids, about how Vermont’s near-universal childcare system was designed, won, and implemented, and what national-level policymakers can learn from Vermont about making public childcare happen.

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Plus, Click to Cancel in NYC will save millions in this week's Roosevelt Rundown.

07/12/2026

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✅ According to new analysis from Brad Lipton and Toyosi Odusola on the Roosevelt blog, and covered by More Perfect Union, ordinary users of Kalshi—the largest prediction market in the US—have lost more than half a billion dollars since its launch in July 2021 to May 2026.
✅ In a new video, former Biden admin industrial policy official Sameera Fazili speaks with Roosevelt President and CEO Elizabeth Wilkins in Atlanta, Georgia, about the spread of proposed data centers and how local communities are demanding a democratic say.
✅ In a new brief, Roosevelt Fellow Diana Reddy argues that today's conversations often overlook a fundamental question: why work matters not just economically, but as a core part of the human experience.

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Ordinary users have lost half a billion dollars on Kalshi since its launch and more in this week's Roosevelt Rundown.

07/03/2026

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✅ As we celebrate our country’s 250th, Senior Research Associate Noa Rosinplotz explains how President Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act enriched an ultra-wealthy few while slashing essential services for the many.
✅ Fellow Anisha Steephen writes about regulating rents both as a method of controlling costs for tenants and as a powerful, largely untapped tool of financial regulation in the housing market.
✅ Principal Economist Michael Madowitz explains that while AI hasn’t replaced white-collar jobs as CEOs promised, the unemployment rate for workers ages 25–34 with more than a bachelor’s degree has been remarkably high for the past several years.

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Wealth concentration has corrupted our democracy and more in this week's Roosevelt Rundown.

06/28/2026

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✅ Roosevelt Fellow Jessica Calarco illustrates how the childcare, eldercare, and healthcare responsibilities that keep our economy running are pushed downstream and what this “care cascade” of undervalued labor obscures.
✅ Lena Bilik speaks with Kristin Spanos, CEO of First 5 Alameda, about the nuts and bolts of universal childcare policy implementation.
✅ A new report from political scientists Nate Kelly and Jana Morgan examines the mutually reinforcing relationship between policy stagnation and economic inequality.

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06/19/2026

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✅ In a new brief, Josh Wallack—who served as deputy chancellor for early childhood in the NYC public schools under Mayor Bill de Blasio—examines how the universal pre-K’s design helped it stick through several mayoral administrations.
✅ Roosevelt Director of Corporate Power and Financial Regulation Brad Lipton and housing finance expert Peter Carroll explore straightforward, low-lift policy fixes that can help lower-income households take advantage of refinancing their mortgage and save thousands of dollars on payments
✅ Principal Economist Michael Madowitz traces Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s changing positions on monetary policy and explains what we’d actually need to see if he wanted to lower interest rates.

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Two ways to put more money in working families’ pockets and more in this week's Roosevelt Rundown.

06/12/2026

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✅ Social Security’s trust fund challenges are solvable, but Congress needs to act.
✅ New reactions to The Agenda highlight the need for bold solutions to today’s economic challenges.
✅ Elizabeth Wilkins explains why retirement savings should be protected from excessive exposure to AI and other speculative tech investments.

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The 2026 Trustees Report shows Congress must take action on social security, the sooner the better and more in the Roosevelt Rundown