A Missing Link: The Role of Antitrust Law in Rectifying Employer Power in Our High-Profit, Low-Wage Economy
Monday, 16 April 2018
The American economy no longer functions to the benefit of American workers. Despite record profits and increased productivity, wages have been stagnant. In fact, despite being 75 percent more productive in 2016 than in 1973, the average worker earned just 12 percent more. An emerging body of research chronicles the extent of labor market monopsony—where
- Published in Brief, Economy & Growth, Finance & Wealth, Publications
Powerless: How Lax Antitrust and Concentrated Market Power Rig the Economy Against American Workers, Consumers, and Communities
Tuesday, 27 March 2018
As workers, as consumers, and as citizens, Americans are increasingly powerless in today’s economy. A 40-year assault on antitrust and competition policy—the laws and regulations meant to guard against the concentration of power in private hands—has tipped the economy in favor of powerful corporations and their shareholders. Under the false assumption that the unencumbered ambitions
- Published in Economic Inclusion, Economy & Growth, Feature, Insights Left Column, Publications, Report
10 Ideas 2018: Online Ideas
Monday, 26 March 2018
At the Roosevelt Institute, we understand the importance and value of young people’s ideas, and we’re actively working with a new generation of leaders committed to fighting for their vision. Our oldest and most competitive policy journal, 10 Ideas, promotes that work by elevating the top student-generated policy proposals from across the country. Healthcare Rehabilitating Sports
- Published in Publications, Roosevelt @
10 Ideas 2018
Monday, 26 March 2018
Roosevelters all across the country are rising to the challenges of today and building their own rulebook, so that government can be reflective of and responsive to the people it’s meant to serve. Our current political and social reality is profoundly different than ones that existed in previous iterations of this journal, but despite that,
- Published in Publications, Report, Roosevelt @
Stock Buybacks: Driving a High-Profit, Low-Wage Economy
Tuesday, 20 March 2018
The dramatic rise in stock buybacks following the passage of the GOP tax plan, also known as the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, has elevated the role stock buybacks play in on our economy. Estimates have shown more than $100 billion in new stock buyback programs have been authorized since the tax law’s passage. Additionally,
- Published in Brief, Economy & Growth, Finance & Wealth, homepage-slider, Publications
Insuring Our Future: Rewriting Health Policy at the George Washington University
Monday, 19 March 2018
The George Washington University (GW) has a student health insurance problem. Annual insurance premiums for the university-sponsored student health insurance plan (SHIP) reached a five-year high of $4,103 for the 2017-18 policy year. This cost is exorbitantly high in comparison to similar plans offered by many other universities, discouraging students from enrolling in the school’s
- Published in Health Care, Publications, Report, Roosevelt @
Inequality and Economic Growth
Wednesday, 07 March 2018
In the middle of the 20th century, it came to be believed that “a rising tide lifts all boats”: economic growth would bring increasing wealth and higher living standards to all sections of society. At the time, there was some evidence behind that claim. In the ensuing economic and political debate, this “rising-tide hypothesis” evolved
- Published in Economic Inclusion, Economy & Growth, Finance & Wealth, Publications
Corporate Financialization and Worker Prosperity: A Broken Link
Wednesday, 17 January 2018
The ability of workers to bargain for a greater share of a firm’s corporate profits has eroded over decades, and one of the growing drivers of this reality is the financialization of the corporate sector. Corporate financialization can be summed up as two behaviors: firms (like Walmart or Pfizer) increasingly earning profits from financial activity
- Published in Economic Inclusion, Economy & Growth, Feature, homepage-slider, Publications, Report
Inequality, Stagnation, and Market Power
Friday, 05 January 2018
There is much to be concerned about in America today: a growing political and economic divide, slowing growth, decreasing life expectancy, an epidemic of diseases of despair. The unhappiness that is apparent has taken an ugly turn, with an increase in protectionism and nativism. Trump’s diagnosis, which blames outsiders, is wrong, as are the prescriptions
- Published in Economy & Growth, homepage-slider, Politics, Publications, Working Papers
Economic Justice in America: Fifty Years After the Kerner Report
Thursday, 30 November 2017
President Trump ran on a platform of “Make America Great Again.” A familiar retort was that America was still great. But it was not as great as it could be. Its greatness arises not so much from its military power, but from its soft power and its economic power. In today’s world, America’s continued racism
- Published in Publications
