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The Contribution of Shareholder Primacy to the Racial Wealth Gap
Wednesday, 05 February 2020
In The Contribution of Shareholder Primacy to the Racial Wealth Gap, Roosevelt Fellow Lenore Palladino explores several ways of evaluating the impact of disparate equity ownership, and payments to shareholders, on racial wealth disparities. Using data from the Federal Reserve’s Distributional Financial Accounts and S&P Compustat, Palladino measures corporate equity ownership by race and ethnicity
- Published in Publications, Working Papers
Celebrating 15 Years of Student-Driven Progress
Monday, 03 February 2020
“I understood that my responsibility as a student activist wasn’t simply to call attention to what was wrong but to work diligently to make it right. And I have tried to live that life, every day” —Stacey Abrams On Saturday, January 11th, Stacey Abrams shared her hopeful wisdom with over 100 Roosevelt Network students, alumni,
- Published in Blog, Roosevelt @
Behind the Latest CBO Numbers: Four Reasons Why We Shouldn’t Fear the Deficit
Friday, 31 January 2020
The latest CBO forecasts show lower interest rates, a lower debt-GDP ratio, and no crowd-out: a reminder to check economic assumptions and a recipe for increased public spending. Earlier this week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Budget and Economic Outlook for the next decade. The numbers that have gotten the most attention are
- Published in Blog
How Student Movements Helped Normalize Divestiture
Thursday, 30 January 2020
The Great Democracy Initiative’s (GDI) latest report on how Dodd-Frank regulatory powers could be used to curb carbon financing offers an innovative approach to addressing the climate crisis. For the Roosevelt Network, it also reminds us that this wouldn’t be possible without the groundwork of youth-led divestiture movements that have increasingly gained momentum in recent
- Published in Blog, Education, Energy & Environment
How Dodd-Frank Could Curb the Climate Crisis—Right Now
Wednesday, 29 January 2020
In the absence of federal climate legislation and amidst a regulatory rollback both sweeping and relentless in nature, it’s no wonder that majorities of Americans believe that our government is doing too little to address the climate crisis. A potential salve for that eco-anxiety: Whenever it’s ready, the executive branch alone could take unprecedented—and legally
- Published in Blog, Energy & Environment
How We Got Here and Where We’re Going: Neoliberalism Has Failed, and a New Progressivism Is on the Rise
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:January 15, 2020 CONTACT:Ariela Weinberger, aweinberger@rooseveltinstitute.org How We Got Here and Where We’re Going: Neoliberalism Has Failed, and a New Progressivism Is on the Rise New Roosevelt reports explore the failures of neoliberalism and the framework for a post-neoliberal economy and society New York, NY—At a time when corporate profits are sky-high, workers’
- Published in Press Release
The Empirical Failures of Neoliberalism
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Over the last five decades, an empirical revolution in economics has undermined many of the assumptions of “neoliberalism,” the reigning approach to economic policy. Many of the guiding assumptions underlying neoliberal policymaking no longer speak to what is going on in the economy or our country more broadly. In “The Empirical Failures of Neoliberalism,” Roosevelt
- Published in Brief, Publications
The Emerging Worldview: How New Progressivism Is Moving Beyond Neoliberalism
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Measured conventionally, very little about today’s politics makes sense. Many attempts to explain the chaos point to political partisanship or regional animosity, but we believe that the chaos is a sign of something deeper: the death of one worldview and the ascent of another. The neoliberal ideal—that markets would create both economic and political freedom
- Published in Publications, Report
A Values Proposition for Free College Policies
Wednesday, 18 December 2019
Against the backdrop of a $1.6 trillion student debt crisis and declining college enrollment, free college has emerged as a political lightning rod in today’s higher education debate. Questions about who should and will benefit—and what “free” even means—have created a free-for-whom free-for-all, with proposals varying both by student and institutional access. To evaluate these
- Published in Blog
Yes, We Can Implement a Free College Program. American History, and Our Values, Say So
Wednesday, 18 December 2019
College affordability has been a major kitchen-table issue for American families for the past three decades. This is not surprising considering that college tuition rates have shot up since the 1980s: Tuition at public four-year colleges increased 213 percent from 1987 to 2017 and 129 percent at private not-for-profit colleges, helping drive the $1.6 trillion
- Published in Blog, Economic Inclusion
