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How We Got Here: Economic Ideology and Climate Inaction
Monday, 04 November 2019
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:November 5, 2019 CONTACT:Ariela Weinberger, aweinberger@rooseveltinstitute.org How We Got Here: Economic Ideology and Climate Inaction New Roosevelt report explores how neoliberal ideology has stymied action to address the growing climate crisis New York, NY—Since President Ronald Reagan entered the White House with big promises to smash the regulatory state and free the market,
- Published in Press Release
New Rules for the 21st Century: Corporate Power, Public Power, and the Future of Prescription Drug Policy in the United States
Monday, 28 October 2019
Today’s pharmaceutical industry is failing most Americans. Every day, a new story emerges about an outrageous price spike for a lifesaving drug, a fraud perpetrated on the American people in the name of profit, or the revolving door of administration officials entering an agency from a drug company or leaving to go to one—a practice
- Published in Brief, Publications
STATEMENT: Roosevelt Institute Fellow Responds to Resignation in US Department of Education
Thursday, 24 October 2019
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 24, 2019 CONTACT: Ariela Weinberger, aweinberger@rooseveltinstitute.org STATEMENT: Roosevelt Institute Fellow Responds to Resignation in US Department of Education New York, NY—Tuition is rising, and student loan debt stands at more than $1.6 trillion. Meanwhile, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s policies continue to trap Americans in more debt. Today, however, news is
- Published in Press Release
Testimony before the House Education and Labor Committee Hearing on The Future of Work
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Madam Chair Wilson, Madam Chair Adams, Ranking Members Walberg and Byrne, and members of the Subcommittees, thank you for this opportunity to testify today. I am a professor at Temple University law school, a visiting professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. I am here today in my capacity
- Published in Blog, Economic Inclusion, Publications, Work and Labor
Behind the Numbers: The CBO Just Handed Us $2 Trillion
Monday, 21 October 2019
Anyone who follows the DC budget game knows that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) serves as its referee; any proposal that involves new spending or revenue is scored by the CBO for its impact on the federal debt over the next 10 years. That score normally sets the terms on which the proposal will be
- Published in Blog, Economy & Growth
Dismantling Broken Power Structures in Higher Ed
Thursday, 17 October 2019
For decades, regulators have had only limited success in taming a for-profit college industry that routinely defrauds students, inflates prices, and produces devastatingly bad outcomes for student loan borrowers. But recently, instead of promoting complex regulatory schemes, some policymakers have offered a simple solution: take away for-profit colleges’ federal subsidies. Today, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)
- Published in Blog, Democratic Access, Economic Inclusion, Finance & Wealth
Why We Need to Design Health Care Reform That Puts Patients Before Profits
Thursday, 17 October 2019
Amidst the major health care policy differences highlighted at Tuesday’s Democratic debate, we must not forget one telling statistic: While the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has extended insurance coverage to millions, a majority of Americans who were uninsured prior to passage of the law still remain uninsured today. Relative to the most credible forecasts from
- Published in Blog, Economic Inclusion, homepage-slider, Human Rights, Politics
Testimony before the House Financial Services Committee Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Thank you, Chairwoman Maloney and Ranking Member Huizenga, for inviting me to speak today. It is an honor to be here. My name is Lenore Palladino, and I am Assistant Professor of Economics & Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and Research Associate at the Political Economy
- Published in Blog, Economic Inclusion, Finance & Wealth, Publications
Stock Buybacks Are a Key Example of Extractive Corporate Power
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Corporate profits and executive pay are sky high today, while wages for most American workers have remained low and stagnant over the past several decades. Today’s high-profit, low-wage economy is, in part, a result of rules and policies that shape corporate decision-making. These rules have allowed CEOs, shareholders, and executives to move more and more
- Published in Publications
Roosevelt Must-Reads: What’s Not Working
Friday, 11 October 2019
This week, Roosevelt Communications Manager Ariela Weinberger is reading an Axios article on how automation will negatively impact the racial wealth gap—especially for Black workers—and a New York Times op-ed from economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman on the future of tax justice and how absurd it is that “the working class is now paying
- Published in Blog, Economic Inclusion
